> It found the company successfully persuaded the US Federal Aviation Administration not to classify the anti-stall system as “safety critical”, meaning that many pilots did not even know of its existence before flying the Max.
> In doing so, Boeing concealed from regulators internal test data showing that if a pilot took longer than 10 seconds to recognise that the system had kicked in erroneously, the consequences would be “catastrophic”.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 15.0 ms ] threadWith a particularly damning extract:
> It found the company successfully persuaded the US Federal Aviation Administration not to classify the anti-stall system as “safety critical”, meaning that many pilots did not even know of its existence before flying the Max.
> In doing so, Boeing concealed from regulators internal test data showing that if a pilot took longer than 10 seconds to recognise that the system had kicked in erroneously, the consequences would be “catastrophic”.