EXCLUSIVE-Boeing 2016 inner messages counsel workers could have misled FAA on 737 MAX – sources

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EXCLUSIVE-Boeing 2016 inner messages counsel workers could have misled FAA on 737 MAX – sources

By David Shepardson


By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters)Boeing Co BA.N turned over immediate messages from 2016 between two workers that counsel the airplane maker could have misled the Federal Aviation Administration a few key security system on the grounded 737 MAX, sources briefed on the matter stated.

The FAA confirmed Friday that Boeing instructed it a day earlier about inner messages it had found “some months in the past” that characterize “sure communications with the FAA in the course of the authentic certification of the 737 MAX in 2016.”

The FAA stated it discovered the messages “regarding” and “is reviewing this info to find out what motion is suitable.”

Sources instructed Reuters the Boeing inner messages raised questions concerning the efficiency of the so-called MCAS anti-stall system that has been tied to the 2 deadly crashes in 5 months. Boeing declined to right away remark.

The messages are between the MAX’s then-chief technical…



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