“Designed By Clowns”: Boeing Employees Joked About Deadly 737 Max

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“Designed By Clowns”: Boeing Employees Joked About Deadly 737 Max
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The internal conversations among Boeing employees suggest the company was aware of issues with the passenger jet and intentionally deceived the Federal Aviation Administration

turned over to Congress Thursday, Boeing employees joked about apparent deficiencies in the 737 Max and discussed dodging federal regulators to hide problems with the passenger jet that would be involved in two deadly crashes in the span of five months. “This airplane is designed by clowns,” one employee wrote in 2017, “who in turn are supervised by monkeys.” That same year, another employee referenced an internal push to bypass costly simulator training.

The internal conversations suggest the company was aware of issues with the passenger jet and intentionally deceived the Federal Aviation Administration and other oversight bodies. “I still haven’t been forgiven by god for the covering up I did last year,” one wrote in 2018, the same year a Lion Air flight

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