The crisis enveloping Boeing has deepened with the release of hundreds of internal messages between employees working on the 737 Max aircraft, which boasted of deceiving safety regulators and said the plane had been “designed by clowns”. The messages sent between 2015 and 2018 show unnamed employees discussing the potentially fatal implications of what they believed was substandard work on the 737 Max project. Boeing said the released messages were “completely unacceptable” and admittedthey raised questions about its interactions with the FAA. The messages include some from a former Boeing senior technical pilot, Mark Forkner, and another 737 chief technical pilot, Patrik Gustavsson. Boeing disclosed other messages from Forkner in October in which he said he might have unintentionally misled regulators and raised questions about a key safety system in testing.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 02:53 UTC