Boeing to settle an SEC investigation into allegedly misleading statements the company and then-Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg made about the 737 MAX.
In April 2016, when Boeing’s 737 MAX was in flight test a year ahead of its certification by the Federal Aviation Administration, Southwest Airlines made a strange proposal to Boeing one that suggests an effort to deceive the FAA.
According to a legal filing by attorneys pursuing a lawsuit against the airline, Southwest manager Bill Lusk asked Boeing officials, including the MAX chief technical pilot Mark Forkner, if engineers could install a new flight control safety alert required for the MAX on a single one of Southwest’s older 737s and then deactivate it once the MAX was certified.…
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Earlier this year, a jury in Dallas, Texas found Mark Forkner not guilty. Forkner was the Boeing test pilot who was the only individual accused of criminal activity for Boeing’s crime that resulted in 354 individuals dying in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes. Forkner’s lawyer portrayed Forkner as a scapegoat for the Boeing criminal activity…