Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg faces withering questions from senators about two crashes of 737 Max jets and whether the company concealed information about a critical flight system
Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg exits after testifying at a hearing on the grounded 737 MAX in the wake of deadly crashes before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, October 29, 2019.
"Those pilots never had a chance," Blumenthal said. Passengers "never had a chance. They were in flying coffins as a result of Boeing deciding that it was going to conceal MCAS from the pilots." Muilenburg denied that Boeing ever blamed the pilots. Several times this spring and summer he said the accidents were caused by a "chain of events," not a single factor. The comments were widely seen as deflecting blame, including to the pilots.
Muilenburg's testimony was the first by a Boeing executive since the crashes. The CEO is scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday. Muilenburg told senators that Boeing is in the final stages of updating flight software to improve safety by adding redundancy — tying MCAS to a second sensor and second computer at all times, and making the system's ability to push a plane's nose down less powerful.
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