'Designed by clowns, led by monkeys': what Boeing employees said about the 737 MAX aircraft

Boeing has published an internal correspondence of its own employees. They wrote to each other that the 737 Max, which was temporarily decommissioned, was unsuitable for flights, and discussed lobbying against the interests of the aviation regulator, writes Air force.

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The 737 Max airliner was “designed by clowns, who were in turn led by monkeys,” one Boeing employee said in a message to another. This is from a chat conversation in April 2017.

The company emphasized that it had published correspondence (with certain notes) on its own initiative, following the principle of transparency. A month ago, an unedited version was handed over to the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress.

Boeing's statement called the correspondence "completely unacceptable."

“These messages do not reflect who our company is today, nor what it should be,” Boeing officials added.

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In another post, dated November 2015, Boeing employees are discussing how to counter the initiative of the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA demanded that simulator training be an indispensable part of the training of pilots of the 737 Max liner, and employees discussed how to prevent this.

“We will fight this. We will likely need support at the highest level when it comes to final negotiations,” it says.

In February 2018, another employee wrote to another: “Would you put your family on a plane whose pilot trained in the Max simulator? I wouldn't."

The correspondence has already been commented on by Congress and the FAA. Transportation Committee Chairman Peter De Fazio said the emails "show a coordinated effort to hide critical information from regulators and the public that began in the early days of the 737 Max project."

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The FAA, in turn, said that all the shortcomings of the model and simulation program, which are mentioned in the correspondence, were eliminated.

“The tone and content of some of the documents are disappointing,” the regulator said in a statement.

Boeing admitted that some of the messages “raise questions” about the company’s negotiations with the regulator, but expressed “confidence in the regulatory process for approving the simulators.” Simulation programs for the 737 Max have been improved over recent years, Boeing added.

On December 16, the company announced that it would suspend the production of 2020 Max airliners in January 737. The operation of the aircraft was suspended due to two air crashes that have occurred in recent years.

Last October, the crash of a Lion Air liner in Indonesia claimed the lives of 189 people. In March 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model crashed in Ethiopia, killing 157 people.

On December 23, Boeing chief Dennis Mühlenburg resigned.

As wrote earlier ForumDaily:

• 10 March Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, crashed 60 km east of the capital of Ethiopia. The crash claimed the lives of 157 people, among whom were citizens of 35 countries, including three Russians.
• This crash was the second crash of an aircraft of this type in half a year - at the end of October 2018, the same Boeing Indonesian company Lion Air fell into the Java Sea shortly after departure from Jakarta airport. Killed all 189 people on board.
• Immediately after the disaster in Ethiopia many countries have suspended Boeing 737 Max 8 flights.
• The latest flights of the 737 Max 8 family of liners suspended the USA.
• Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmavit Moges said black box data on the Boeing 10 MAX 737 crashed on March 8 "Obvious similarities" with the crash of the aircraft of the same model in Indonesia in October 2018. The company does not agree with this.
• Many pilots who had to drive a Boeing 737 MAX crashed in Ethiopia versed in controlling this aircraft model via iPad tablets.

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