Hundreds Of 737 Max Pilots Sue Boeing Over ‘Unprecedented Cover-Up”

June 24th, 2019

Via: ZeroHedge:

The lawsuit, filed by a plaintiff who goes by “Pilot X” in court documents out of “fear of reprisal from Boeing and discrimination from Boeing customers,” accuses the Chicago-based aviation giant of “an unprecedented cover-up of the known design flaws of the MAX, which predictably resulted in the crashes of two MAX aircraft and subsequent grounding of all MAX aircraft worldwide.”

The lawsuit focuses on the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) anti-stall system, which Pilot X claims gave the aircraft “inherently dangerous aerodynamic handling defects.”

The reason for this handling quirk was by design, as Boeing made the decision to retrofit newer, large fuel-efficient engines onto an existing 737 model’s fuselage, in order to create the MAX.

The larger engines caused a change in aerodynamics which made the plane prone to pitching up during flight, so much so, that it risked a crash as a result of an aerodynamic stall.

To stop this from happening, Boeing introduced MCAS software to the MAX, which automatically tilted the plane down if the software detected that the plane’s nose was pointing at too steep of an angle, known as a high Angle of Attack (AOA). -ABC

One Response to “Hundreds Of 737 Max Pilots Sue Boeing Over ‘Unprecedented Cover-Up””

  1. dale says:

    This dark cloud is particularly ominous; a black swan with pterodactyl features. Boeing may be an MIC creature but that doesn’t exempt it from the laws of physics.

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