The MCAS was largely to blame for two crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people. So, how did we get to this plea deal, and what will happen next? In 2021, Boeing agreed to a settlement ...

resulted in an inability of the FAA to provide an independent assessment of the adequacy of the Boeing-proposed certification activities associated with MCAS." The report also questioned the FAA's ...

Importantly, the Justice Department found that Boeing had not revealed the MCAS's existence to operators or pilots. Because the pilots were unaware of what was causing the pitch down, neither the ...

and Boeing had promised its customers that 737 pilots would not need to be retrained. So it created a software program called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to push the ...

Boeing had not told pilots about MCAS until after the Lion Air crash, and regulators at the FAA didn’t know much about it either. Earlier this month, the House Transportation Committee disclosed ...

Southwest has exclusively operated a fleet of 737 aircraft since it began flying in 1971. The union claims the MCAS is the result of Boeing’s decision to use the newer, larger LEAP1-B engines on the ...

Boeing had downplayed the significance of a new flight-control system called MCAS. Acting on Boeing’s incomplete disclosures, the FAA approved minimal, computer-based training instead of more ...

Boeing has come under fire in recent months for failing to disclose the presence of the Maneuvering Characteristic Augmentation System or MCAS on its Boeing 737 Max airliners. In fact, the ...

Boeing says the plane is safe. “They have addressed that MCAS system. They have reprogrammed it. They have also made changes to how the pilots react to that so that they get that training in the ...

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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge associated with the crashes of two 737 Max airplanes in 2018 and 2019, but the families of victims said the deal Boeing ...