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The 737 max. they didn t tell the faa or airlines that flight the plane. in these messages from 2016 obtained by nbc news, two test pilots working for boeing write about problems with the mcas system in the flight simulator two years before the first fatal crash in indonesia. its running rampant in the sim on me, writes the former chief test pilot mark forkner. the other pilot responds, oh, great. that means we have to update the trim description. forkner writes, so i basically lied to the regulators unknowingly. at one point he calls what happened in the flight simulator egregious. in a statement to the wall street journal forkner s attorney writes, if you read the whole chat it is obvious there was no lie, and the simulator program was not operating properly. based on what he was told, mark thought the plane was safe and the simulator would be fixed. the faa says it found the messages concerning, adding, it s also disappointed boeing ....

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