Boeing 737 Max's future cloudy after pilots' bombshell messages

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Analysis: Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration are engulfed in a public rupture over a bombshell revelation about the 737 Max, and the timing couldn't be worse

, as the aircraft was in testing. One of the pilots recounted a rocky simulator trial of software known as the

"From a technical perspective, the revelation need not affect the timing but, in our view, there is a political/public relations aspect of returning the Max," Seth Seifman, an analyst with JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a note. "Boeing, regulators, and carriers have to sell the technical and cultural changes credibly - and while the impact is difficult to quantify, the news is negative.

Muilenburg called Dickson to respond to the concerns, Boeing said in a statement. Asked whether the Max's comeback would be affected, company spokesman Gordon Johndroe said, "we'll continue to follow the path to certification as currently outlined by the FAA." In the communications, Forkner and Gustavsson raised multiple concerns about MCAS, including not being given data by the company's test pilots and Forkner describing his alarm at simulator tests in which he encountered troubling behavior in the system. MCAS automatically pushes down the plane's nose if the flight computer senses the jet is in danger of an aerodynamic stall.

 

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