Published 13:24 IST, October 29th 2019
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says "We know we made mistakes"
Boeing's Co-Chief Executive Dennis Muilenberg will be addressing that the airplane manufacturer made a few mistakes in the wake of a congressional hearing
Boeing's Co-Chief Executive, Dennis Muilenberg, is likely to admit that the airplane manufacturer made a few mistakes in the wake of a congressional hearing based on two 737 Boeing Max crashed that took the lives of 346 people. According to a written confession, Muilenburg will be telling the US Senate Commerce Committee that the company has learned from its mistakes and will keep on learning from the accidents that have happened in the past couple of months.
"We will and have to better now"
Muilenberg's testimony also states that the manufacturer will and has to do better now. It also offers its condolences to the families and loved ones of the people who lost their lives in the crashes involving the MAX 737 aircraft. He also said that when the Boeing airplane starts flying again, it will be one of the safest aircraft for the customers.
Muilenberg who also stepped down as the Boeing chairman will also be testifying before the US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in a hearing that will be taking place on the anniversary of the crash of the Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia that claimed the lives of 189 people.
'Will only fly after the stamp of approval"
US Airlines had canceled flights in the months of January and February after the 737 planes were grounded. According to reports, the Federal Aviation Administration will not be allowing the 737 MAX planes to resume flying until the month of December.
While speaking to an international media outlet, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman, Roger Wicker, stated that the grounded will only fly when most of the American Citizens and concerned authorities are convinced that it will be safe to fly in one of these planes again.
'Functioned without any oversight'
According to reports, Investigators from Indonesia stated that Boeing was functioning without any oversight from the American regulators and failed to understand the risks involved in the design of the cockpit software that caused the fatal Lion Air 610 crash and the 737 MAX crash of Ethiopian Airlines 302 that claimed the lives of 157 people in the month of March.
Dennis Muilenberg accepted the fact that both the fatal crashes had repetition in the activation of a flight control software function called the MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) after it was installed with a faulty sensor.
Updated 20:34 IST, October 29th 2019