{"id":19600,"date":"2019-06-16T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/boeing-ceo-admits-mistake-in-737-max-communication\/"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:54:34","slug":"boeing-ceo-admits-mistake-in-737-max-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/boeing-ceo-admits-mistake-in-737-max-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing CEO Admits Mistake In 737 MAX Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg says the company should have been more transparent with regulators and the public when Boeing discovered a safety light was not operating as designed. <\/p>\n

Muilenburg made the comments to reporters ahead of the Paris Air Show, Boeing spokesman Gordon Johndroe told NPR.<\/p>\n

“We clearly fell short in the implementation of the AOA disagree alert and we clearly should have communicated better with our regulators and the airlines,” Johndroe said in an interview by phone from Paris. <\/p>\n

Boeing’s 737 MAX plane has been grounded worldwide since the second of two crashes that together killed 346 people. In both the Lion Air flight in October 2018 <\/a>and the Ethiopian Airlines flight in March 2019<\/a>, pilots struggled to overcome a software program known as MCAS that drove the noses of the planes down. Now Boeing is working on a software update that will enable pilots to more easily control their aircraft. <\/p>\n