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Boeing 737 MAX chief technical pilot indicted for fraud
In January, Boeing agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion in fines and compensation after reaching a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Justice Department over the MAX crashes, which cost Boeing more than $20 billion.
The January agreement faulted Boeing's conduct and said it was holding the largest U.S. planemaker "accountable for its employees’ criminal misconduct."
In January, Boeing admitted in court documents that through two former employees it deceived the FAA about the MCAS.
Prosecutors noted that a key FAA document lacked any reference to the MCAS, and as a result airplane manuals and pilot-training materials for U.S.-based airlines also lacked any reference.
One November 2016 message from Forkner said he was working at "jedi-mind tricking regulators into accepting the training that I got accepted by FAA."
If the FAA required pilot simulator training for MAX pilots, Boeing would have been required to pay Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) nearly $400 million to offset the simulator-based pilot training requirements, a 2020 U.S. House of Representatives report said.
In 2019, the FAA required simulator training before pilots could resume flying the MAX.
Forkner is charged with two counts of fraud involving aircraft parts in interstate commerce and four counts of wire fraud. He is expected to make his initial court appearance Friday in Fort Worth, Texas.
If convicted, he potentially faces decades in prison.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ex-boeing-737-max-c
hief-technical-pilot-indicted-fraud-us-justice-dept-2021-10-14/
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How Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created The 737 MAX Disaster
Nearly two decades before Boeing’s MCAS system crashed two of the plane-maker’s brand-new 737 MAX jets, Stan Sorscher knew his company’s increasingly toxic mode of operating would create a disaster of some kind. A long and proud “safety culture” was rapidly being replaced, he argued, with “a culture of financial bullshit, a culture of groupthink.”
Sorscher, a physicist who’d worked at Boeing more than two decades and had led negotiations there for the engineers’ union, had become obsessed with management culture. He said he didn’t previously imagine Boeing’s brave new managerial caste creating a problem as dumb and glaringly obvious as MCAS (or the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, as a handful of software wizards had dubbed it).
In the now infamous debacle of the Boeing 737 MAX, the company produced a plane outfitted with software programmed to override all pilot input and nosedive when a little vane on the side of the fuselage told it the nose was pitching up. The vane was also not terribly reliable, possibly due to assembly line lapses reported by a whistle-blower, and when the plane processed the bad data it received, it promptly dove into the sea.
It is understood, now more than ever, that capitalism does half-assed things like that, especially in concert with computer software and oblivious regulators: AIG famously told investors it was hard for management to contemplate “a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions” that would, a few months later, lose the firm well over $100 billion—but hey, the risk management algorithms had been wrong. A couple of years later, a single JP Morgan trader lost $6 billion because someone had programmed one of the cells in the bank’s risk management spreadsheet to divide two numbers by their sum instead of their average. Boeing was not, of course, a hedge fund: It was way better, a stock that had more than doubled since the Trump inauguration, outperforming the Dow in the 22 months before Lion Air 610 plunged into the Java Sea.
And so there was something unsettlingly familiar when the world first learned of MCAS in November, about two weeks after the system’s unthinkable stupidity drove the two-month-old plane and all 189 people on it to a horrific death. It smacked of the sort of screwup a 23-year-old intern might have made—and indeed, much of the software on the MAX had been engineered by recent grads of Indian software-coding academies making as little as $9 an hour, part of Boeing management’s endless war on the unions that once represented more than half its employees.
Here, a generation after Boeing’s initial lurch into financialization, was the entirely predictable outcome of the byzantine process by which investment capital becomes completely abstracted from basic protocols of production and oversight: a flight-correction system that was essentially jerry-built to crash a plane. “If you’re looking for an example of late stage capitalism or whatever you want to call it,” said longtime aerospace consultant Richard Aboulafia, “it’s a pretty good one.”
“As an investment professional, allow me to inform Congress as to how Boeing has viewed this whole crisis.” Paul Njoroge laid out the sequence of 737 MAX orders, ten-figure stock buybacks, and dividend hikes.
“Could that be the reason Boeing did not feel obliged to ground the MAX even after the second crash of the Boeing 737 MAX?” he asked. “Back to my very essential question, why wasn’t the MAX 8 grounded in November after the first crash in the Java Sea? One hundred and eighty-nine lives were lost, and executives at Boeing cared more about its stock price than preventing such a tragedy from occurring again,” and so had begun “a pattern of behavior blaming innocent pilots.”
More at https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-in
donesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, wh
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Netflix documentary 'Downfall: The Case Against Boeing' is a deadly tale of greed
Boeing reached a settlement with the DOJ that did not deliver anything close to accountability.
This investigation did lead to the passage of the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, which DeFazio described as necessary to “make sure what happened with the Boeing 737 MAX is never repeated.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/netflix-documentary-downfa
ll-case-against-boeing-deadly-tale-greed-n1289973
https://www.netflix.com/title/81272421
https://yts.mx/movies/downfall-the-case-against-boeing-2022
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Which is more modernized the "dot or feather" ?
https://files.catbox.moe/u7adzs.mp4
Boeing engineers still blame cheap Indian Hindu software from the H-1B visa Street Shitters?
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Quote:It was a hardware problem. And then Americans didn't fix the problem because they would be forced to admit the 737 MAX needs special training for the pilots, in which case Boeing would have to pay, according to contract, a million dollars per plane sold to Southwest Airlines. That is literally thousands of planes and billions of dollars.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Boeing engineers still blame cheap Indian Hindu software from the H-1B visa Street Shitters?
To convince Southwest Airlines Co to buy the Boeing 737 MAX, the plane maker reassured the airline that pilots would not need expensive simulator training and backed up the promise with a $1 million per plane rebate if training was needed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-airplane-southwest/u-s-lawma
kers-question-boeings-1-mln-rebate-clause-for-southwest-737-max-orders-idUSKBN1X92D4
Here's stuff Boeing didn't do until after two crashes:
So Boeing made some changes to the MAX and the MCAS system. The MCAS system now has a maximum limit of one nose-down input during a single event of high angle of attack. The limit doesn’t reset if the pilots activate the electric trim switches. Further, an AOA sensor monitor was added to make sure MCAS doesn’t use AOA input if sensors disagree with each other by more than 5.5 degrees. The Flight Control Computer itself also no longer relies on a single sensor. Another important change is with the AOA DISAGREE alert. Previously, this alert was part of an optional AOA Gauge offered by Boeing. Now the AOA DISAGREE alert is always enabled, regardless of whether the airline has the option or not. All these changes are in the FAA summary.
In addition to the above changes, Boeing also improved training procedures and added safeguards to the Flight Control Computer to detect and stop erronous stabilizer commands. It also added a requirement for operators to test AOA sensors after repairs have been made.
In essence, the changes Boeing made are honestly what should have been done in the first place. Modern aviation is known for its redundancy. MCAS should have never relied on a single sensor, and the system should have never been allowed to continuously enter nose-down inputs.
https://jalopnik.com/heres-everything-boeing-did-to-fix-the-737-max-af
ter-tw-1845716820
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(March 16, 2022, 9:39 PM EDT) — The Boeing Co.'s former chief technical pilot will stand trial Friday in a Texas district court for allegedly misleading safety regulators and airlines about the 737 MAX, in the first U. S. criminal trial over Boeing’s 737 MAX.
The families of 737 MAX crash victims have said the U.S. Justice Department violated their rights when it struck a deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing. As part of the deferred prosecution deal, Boeing test pilot Mark Forkner is the only person to be criminally charged in the two disastrous 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
https://www.law360.com/consumerprotection/articles/1472445/breaking-do
wn-the-doj-s-1st-737-max-criminal-fraud-trial
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Families of victims of the two 737 MAX crashes filed a court motion on Thursday
Say DOJ ‘lied and violated their rights through a secret process’ with Boeing
Accuse prosecutors of allowing Boeing to make a patsy of test pilot
Test pilot Mark Forkner is the only one to be criminally charged in the scandal
The 737 MAX jets had two deadly crashes within months, killing 346 people
The families of 737 MAX crash victims have said the U.S. Justice Department violated their rights when it struck a deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing in January.
Relatives filed a motion on Thursday arguing the United States government ‘lied and violated their rights through a secret process’ by allowing Boeing to escape criminal charges.
As part of the deferred prosecution deal, Boeing test pilot Mark Forkner is the only person to be criminally charged in the two disastrous 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
Families of two victims have asked a U.S. judge to declare that the order violated victims´ families rights to rescind Boeing’s immunity from criminal prosecution that was part of the $2.5 billion agreement.
The families of 737 MAX crash victims have said the U.S. Justice Department violated their rights when it struck a deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing in January.
‘Boeing and the Government deliberately excluded those who were most concerned with the negotiations: the families of the victims,’ said attorney Paul G. Cassell, a former federal judge who is currently a professor of law at the University of Utah and considered one of the nation’s leading experts on crime victims’ rights.
‘If the Government is going to craft a DPA for a serious felony crime, including one that gives a corporation like Boeing immunity, it cannot do so secretly. In concealing its negotiations from Boeing’s victims, the Government plainly violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act – a broad bill of rights protecting victims of federal crimes.’
The motion was brought by the families of Mick Ryan and Jared Babu Mwazo, who both perished in the Ethiopian Flight 302 crash.
The victims’ families are seeking an order for the government to confer with them and provide evidence related to Boeing’s crimes and require Boeing to appear for a public arraignment where the victims can be heard.
They also ask the court to exercise its supervisory powers over the DPA which may include rescinding the immunity provision.
‘If the U.S. Justice Department had advised us of our right to confer with it about the crimes associated with the crash, we would have urged the Department to hold Boeing accountable to the full extent of U.S. criminal law,’ said Mick Ryan’s widow Naoise Connolly Ryan in a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘We would have pointed out that the Boeing employees whose conduct form the basis of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement were acting in furtherance of Boeing’s program goals, set at the highest levels of the company,’ she added.
‘Boeing should be fully prosecuted. The agreement reached under the Trump administration is merely a slap on the wrist that wrongly holds no executive accountable.’
Forkner, Boeing’s former chief technical pilot, was charged with fraud for deceiving federal regulators evaluating the company’s 737 MAX jet.
Boeing test pilot Mark Forkner is the only person to be criminally charged
His attorneys said this week that a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official called him a ‘scapegoat’ for two fatal crashes.
Lawyers for Mark Forkner said the FAA official with personal knowledge of the 737-MAX contacted the government and said Forkner ‘is a ‘scapegoat’ and should ‘not be charged.’ The court filing on Monday did not disclose the official’s name.
Boeing did not respond to a request for comment. The FAA did not immediately comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Northern Texas, where the case is being heard, declined to comment.
The filing also included parts of a PowerPoint from an unnamed FAA employee that defense lawyers said
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Jeez. What weasels.
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Quote:In the movie Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022), starting at 1 hour 17 minutes into the movie, it was revealed that the FAA did a Quantitative Risk Assessment of the 737 MAX after the first crash, the Lion Air crash. What was the conclusion?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Jeez. What weasels.
The FAA calculated that there was a probability of 15 more crashes of this plane over the next 30 years. That would make the MAX the most dangerous modern plane ever built.
Boeing comes back with the response that it averages only 1 crash every 2 years, so will the FAA please, please, pretty please not tell the airlines? If Boeing has 2 years to fix the software, nobody would ever need to know how dangerous the MAX had been before it was fixed. The weird part is that the FAA agreed with this screwy reasoning. It turns out that the next crash happened sooner than 2 years after the first.
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11893274/
On November 18, 2020, the FAA ended the 20-month grounding, the longest ever of a U.S. airliner. If the crashes had been evenly space every 24 months, as Boeing hoped, then Boeing could have gotten the planes fixed without airlines realizing how dangerous the MAX had been before the fix was completed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
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