“This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys,” one Boeing email read.
Newly released internal emails from Boeing Co. paint a disturbing picture of its 737 Max program, with employees bragging about fooling FAA regulators and ridiculing its safety.
Some messages detail problems with the development of Boeing’s 737 Max simulator and suggest the planes got FAA approval under false pretences. “Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t,” one employee emailed a colleague. “No,” the co-worker responded. In a statement Thursday night, Boeing defended its simulators as “functioning effectively” and denounced the emails.
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