A Boeing pilot told a co-worker he unknowingly misled safety regulators about a flight-control system according to the transcript of instant messages the company belatedly turned over to federal officials.
The pilot, Mark Forkner, told another Boeing employee about problems with the flight system, known as MCAS, during a session in a flight simulator.
“So I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly),” Forkner wrote in a message from 2016.
MCAS was designed at least in part to prevent the MAX from stalling in some situations.
After the Federal Aviation Administration certified the plane, without a complete understanding of MCAS, the system was implicated in two crashes that killed 346 people.
Forkner had asked FAA about removing mention of MCAS from the pilot’s manual for the MAX. - CBS Dallas.
And it failed as systems do, that's why there are pilots. The total time for the crew in the Ethiopian crash was less than the minimum time to get an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating in the US. Their likely qual was that they spoke passable English which is required worldwide in commercial aviation. I ask again, did this failure only happen in those 2 jets? If not, why weren't there more crashes?