The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a package of safety recommendations calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to modify its aircraft design safety assessments to include an evaluation of how pilots are likely to respond when they receive multiple alerts and warning indications.
The recommendations, made public in late September in NTSB Aviation Safety Recommendation Report 19-01,1 stemmed from the ongoing investigations of two accidents involving Boeing 737 MAX airplanes. Together, the two accidents — involving Lion Air Flight 610 after an Oct. 29, 2018, takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia,2 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, after a March 10 takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia3 — killed all 346 passengers and crewmembers on the two airplanes.
