Two key lawmakers said Friday that Boeing planned to delay fixing a nonworking safety alert on its 737 Max aircraft for three years and sped up the process only after the first of two deadly crashes involving Max planes last October. Yet the company decided in November of 2017 to defer a software update to fix the flaw until 2020, the statement said. But after the Lion Air crash in Indonesia last year, the company accelerated its timeline for the update, the legislators wrote. The board considered the issue to be “low risk,” and required it to be addressed as part of the software update after the Indonesia crash. Boeing has said the Max was safe to fly without the sensor alert.

Source: Ethiopian News June 07, 2019 14:26 UTC