It wasn't immediately clear what criminal charges might be brought against Forkner, but Boeing previously admitted in a settlement that two unnamed employees conspired to defraud the FAA about MAX training issues to benefit themselves and the company.
Forkner had said he might have unintentionally misled regulators, in a series of internal messages from 2016 that became public in October.
The messages appeared to have been the first publicly known observations that the crucial MCAS anti-stall system behaved erratically during testing before the aircraft entered service.
Malfunctions with the MCAS system, complicated by inadequate training, were implicated in the fatal crashes of Lion Air 610 in 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines 302 just months later.
test pilots don’t conspire against federal regulators and investigators all by themselves.
Then in May Boeing also agreed to pay a $17 million fine and improve its supply chain and production practices after installing unapproved equipment on hundreds of planes.
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Sounds like Boeing has larger issues of corporate corruption than a single test pilot.
The DC-10 case is discussed in detail in the book, The DC-10 Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Technology, and Society (John H. Fielder, Douglas Birsch, editors, State University of New York Press, 1992, 360 pages).
He’s a witch!....He’s a witch!(Monty Python film)Same mentality of anyone who could think that a pilot kept all of the screwed up system away from the BRILLIANT COLLEGE puke engineers and software developers of Boeing with misleading text’x. OR maybe it all depends on what your definition of what misleading is?
So these 300+ negligent homicides are all this one Boeing employee’s fault, huh? What ever happened to “trust but VERIFY” in Obama’s FAA?
The FAA shares guilt.
The 737 MAX software was written by Indians.