Boeing internal message: 737 MAX jet ‘designed by clowns’

Boeing internal company message: 737 MAX jet ‘designed by clowns’
Boeing internal message: 737 MAX jet 'designed by clowns'

Boeing has released another cache of internal company messages that suggest the US aerospace giant lied to regulators about the problems with 737 MAX aircraft.

In a statement issued along with the documents, the plane-makerย apologized โ€œto the FAA, Congress, our airline customers, and to the flying publicโ€ for the โ€œcontent of these communications,โ€ adding it would pursue โ€œdisciplinary or other personnel action, once the necessary reviews are completed.โ€

Newly-released Boeing‘s internal company messages show fierce criticism from an unnamed employee who said the crash-prone 737 MAX aircraft was โ€œdesigned by clowns.โ€

In its release of the redacted communications on Thursday following an internal probe, Boeing acknowledged some of the messages were โ€œcompletely unacceptableโ€ and contained โ€œprovocative language.โ€ In one missive sent in 2017, an employee castigated the 737 MAX โ€“ which was grounded globally last March after a series of fatal crashes โ€“ slamming both its designers and โ€˜supervisors,โ€™ apparently referring to federal regulators.

The employee has not been named, and it is not clear what problems he had identified with the MAX at the time.

Another damning message sent in 2018 shows an employee grappling with ethical concerns, telling a colleague โ€œI still havenโ€™t been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year,โ€ another apparent reference to the companyโ€™s interactions with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In addition to the faulty flight control system thought to have caused the two MAX crashes, the aircraftโ€™s flight simulators also came under fire by employees in the internal messages.

โ€œWould you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldnโ€™t,โ€ one employee asked a coworker, who simply replied: โ€œNo.โ€

An FAA spokesman, however, noted the documents do not reveal any new safety risks with the 737 MAXโ€™s simulators, despite the potentially incriminating communiques indicating employees concealed problems from the agency.

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