Boeing’s deception could prove costly

David Calhoun is the new CEO of Boeing after his predecessor resigned. Picture: AFP/TORU YAMANAKA

Those comments support lawsuits claiming Boeing compromised safety to sell jets — and may increase its liability, said Justin Green, an attorney representing 32 families of people who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash last year. “The lack of training is essential to our case,” Green said. “These documents show that Boeing led the FAA around by the nose and they confirm everything the families have alleged.

Since then, all 737 Max planes were grounded, sales of Boeing jets plunged and CEO Dennis Muilenburg lost his job last month. The shares tumbled, and the company faces wrongful-death lawsuits filed by victims’ families that could cost $2bn to settle, as well as legal battles with investors, pilots and workers.

In 2016, after the FAA had provisionally agreed that only computer-based training was needed for pilots transitioning from the 737 NG to the 737 Max, a Boeing employee said in an e-mail: “You can be away from an NG for 30 years and still be able to jump into a Max? LOVE IT!!” “In the court of public opinion this has to be bad for Boeing, any way you slice it,” said Timothy Ravich, an aviation law expert at the University of Central Florida. “This smells very, very bad.”

With deliveries of new Max jets halted by the crashes and orders cancelled, Boeing disclosed on Tuesday that it had lost the title of world’s largest plane maker. Deliveries last year tumbled to 380 jetliners, less than half the 863 tallied by rival Airbus.

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