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During 737 MAX recertification testing, Boeing inappropriately influenced FAA human factor simulator testing of pilot reaction times involving a Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) failure.
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The Committee’s investigation discovered that at least one official FAA recertification test event was improperly influenced by Boeing. At least one FAA Aircraft Certification Test Pilot appears to have been complicit in this testing. Slow and incomplete responses to document requests and incomplete interviews have hindered progress on this specific topic. Some of the delays are due to conflict with ongoing criminal investigations. Therefore, it is impossible to determine how much of the systemic training, oversight, and management intervention problems detailed in this report may have contributed to the certification of the 737 MAX.
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· FAA conduct of investigations appear to be inconsistent, lack objectivity and diligence while providing opportunity for abuse and retaliation.
· During 737 MAX recertification testing, a Boeing employee inappropriately influenced FAA human factor simulator testing of pilot reaction times involving a Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) failure.
· FAA Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) test pilots were complicit in skewing human factor simulator testing to support erroneous pilot reaction time to runaway stabilizer reaction time assumptions of Boeing.
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· FAA senior leaders may have obstructed a Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) review of the 737 MAX crashes.
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These emails show Mark Forkner attempting to get the MCAS system removed from all pilot training as well as the Flight Crew Operations Manual (FCOM) well after he had discovered that the MCAS system was not behaving correctly.
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Mark Forkner era el "Boeing Chief Technical Pilot".
