The new evidence on 737 MAX development was released at the House Boeing hearing today—here's what Chairman Peter DeFazio presented:
... [+]The House Transportation Committee has gathered tens of thousands of pages of documents in its investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX, and on Wednesday Chairman Peter DeFazio presented some of it at a public hearing in an attempt to get answers from Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg.
With the plane grounded since the second crash in March, Boeing has redesigned MCAS to rely on two AoA sensors. However, DeFazio noted that in the Ethiopian crash pilots are believed to have taken eight seconds to respond, and several outside reviews have suggested that Boeing’s assumptions of a uniform four-second response was unrealistic. DeFazio shared a Boeing assessment from 2018 that a reaction time of greater than 10 seconds would “be catatastrophic due to the inability to arrest the airplane overspeed.
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