The CEO of Boeing defended the company\u2019s safety record and declined to take any more than partial blame for two deadly crashes of its best-selling plane even while saying Monday that the company has nearly finished an update that \u201cwill make the airplane even safer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chairman and CEO \nDennis Muilenburg took reporters\u2019 questions for the first time since \naccidents involving the Boeing 737 Max in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed \n346 people and plunged Boeing into its deepest crisis in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muilenburg\n said that Boeing followed the same design and certification process it \nhas always used to build safe planes, and he denied that the Max was \nrushed to market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs in most accidents, there are a chain of \nevents that occurred,\u201d he said, referring to the Lion Air crash on Oct. \n29 and the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max. \u201cIt\u2019s not \ncorrect to attribute that to any single item.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CEO said \nBoeing provided steps that should be taken in response to problems like \nthose encountered by pilots of the planes that crashed. \u201cIn some cases \nthose procedures were not completely followed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The news\n conference, held after Boeing\u2019s annual meeting in Chicago, came as new \nquestions have arisen around the Max, which has been grounded worldwide \nsince mid-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Separately, published reports said that federal \nregulators and congressional investigators are examining safety \nallegations relating to the Max that were raised by about a dozen \npurported whistleblowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Boeing event occurred on the same \nday that the Federal Aviation Administration convened a week-long \nmeeting in Seattle of aviation regulators from around the world to \nreview the FAA\u2019s certification of MCAS, a key flight-control system on \nthe Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A spokesman said the FAA will share its technical \nknowledge with other regulators, but their approval is not needed before\n the plane resumes flying in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boeing has conceded that in\n both accidents, MCAS was triggered by faulty readings from a single \nsensor and pushed the planes\u2019 noses down. Pilots were unable to control \nthe planes although the Ethiopian Airlines crew followed some of the \nsteps that Boeing recommended to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muilenburg told \nshareholders that Boeing is close to completing an upgrade to flight \nsoftware on the Max \u201cthat will ensure accidents like these never happen \nagain.\u201dIn the brief news conference that followed, Muilenburg took six \nquestions from reporters, including whether he will resign he has no \nintention of doing that and left as reporters persisted, including one \nwho pointed to the deaths of 346 people and urged the CEO to take more \nquestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides the software update, Boeing will present the \nFAA with a plan for training pilots on changes to MCAS. The company is \npushing for training that can be done on tablet computers and, if \nairlines want to offer it, additional time in flight simulators when \npilots are due for periodic retraining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The union for American \nAirlines pilots wants mandatory additional training including, at a \nminimum, video demonstrations showing pilots how to respond to failures \nof systems on the plane. Dennis Tajer, a 737 pilot and union spokesman, \nsaid Boeing and the FAA must require more training rather than leaving \nthe option to airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot every pilot that goes out there and \nflies is a Boeing test pilot,\u201d Tajer said. \u201cIf something happens \nanywhere in the world, it affects all of us.\u201dSeveral shareholder \nresolutions were defeated, including one to name an independent chairman\n whenever possible instead of letting the CEO hold both jobs. It got 34%\n support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muilenburg opened Monday\u2019s meeting with a moment of \nsilence for victims of the two crashes. Later that day, lawyers for two \nCanadian families who lost relatives in the Ethiopian Airlines crash \nfiled the latest in a growing number of lawsuits against Boeing, \nclaiming the plane maker was negligent about safety.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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