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Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active

PerlyKing

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According to what I've read on the Internet - no. The whole point of MCAS was to change the flight characteristics of the 737MAX to match those of the previous model so unobtrusively that it would not require costly recertification and training. Allegedly MCAS was mentioned in some documentation but no simulator training was required.

Apparently part of the problem in the second crash may have been that by the time the MCAS was disabled it had moved the control surface so far that the pilots did not have time to reposition it manually.

Heads should roll at Boeing and the FAA, and if it hurts the share price then that's just too bad!

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