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Boeing to pay more than $2.5B fines in conspiracy case
VIDEO: Boeing to pay more than $2.5B fines in conspiracy case By Ray Rivera | January 7, 2021 at 4:21 PM EST - Updated January 7 at 6:32 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Boeing has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion in connection to a conspiracy to defraud the FAA related to the evaluation of the companyâs 737 MAX airplane, according to officials with the United States Department of Justice.
Government officials said Boeing entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on Thursday in the Northern District of Texas and was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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FAA, Boeing Accused of Manipulating 737 MAX Tests During Recertification Our Bureau 3385
Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
A recent Senate report has claimed that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing manipulated 737 MAX recertification tests following two fatal crashes that led to the worldwide grounding of these jets.
This comes a month after the FAA and State of Design for Boeing aircraft published their final approval of the modified 737 MAX in the Federal Register. The approval signaled that the aircraft has been cleared to fly in the U.S. skies.
Investigations into the accidents showed that a primary cause in each was a software function programme known as the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), which was intended to make the aircraft easier to handle. However, the MCAS, guided by only one Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor, kicked in repeatedly if that sensor malfunctioned, pushing the nose of the aircraft downward multiple times and leading finally
FAA shirked safety protocols, retaliates against whistleblowers, report says
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Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 (ET-AVM), the same aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia in March 2019, is seen at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when it was first delivered to Ethiopia in July 2018. File Photo by Stringer/EPA
Dec. 19 (UPI) The Federal Aviation Administration repeatedly allowed Southwest Airlines to continue operating dozens of aircraft in an unknown airworthiness condition, allowed Boeing to coach test pilots in ways counter to safety protocols and continues to retaliate against whistleblowers, according to a federal report released this week.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called his committee s new findings in Federal Aviation Administration probe after two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes in April 2019, troubling.