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Boeing: former officials accuse it of having omitted the MCAS from the manual

Muilenburg answers: "Our planes are safe"

According to "The Wall Street Journal" some ex-US aerospace company Boeing officials admitted that there was a heated internal debate when it was decided to "omit" the operation of the automated flight control system of the B-737 MAX 8 from the operating manual. A malfunction of an anti-stall sensor and the following activation of the system is among the causes that provoked the plane of Lion Air to...

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SecurityAircraft. Pilots could replicate what happened on the Lion Air B-737 MAX 8

Simulator training to disable Mcas

The pilots of the B-737 MAX aircraft could soon be trained in a simulator to keep the airplane in the same situation faced by those who were at the controls of the Boeing of Lion Air, crashed shortly after... more

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