Citing ongoing investigations of two Boeing 737 MAX accidents that killed 346 people, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today issued seven recommendations that call on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to incorporate into its aircraft design safety assessments an evaluation of how pilots will respond to multiple alerts.
The new safety recommendations were developed through an examination of the safety assessments that were conducted as part of the original design of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), which, according to preliminary investigations, activated in response to erroneous information about the airplane’s angle of attack.
All Boeing MAX airplanes have been grounded since March 13, following the March 10 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 after takeoff from Addis Ababa. The earlier accident involved Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct. 29, 2018. The crashes killed all pa…
