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Boeing 737 MAX crash: Boeing's director let slip about software problems

Boeing Director: we will make our safe aircraft even safer.

The executive director of Boeing, Dennis Mühlenberg, compiled a letter in which he refers to airlines, passengers and representatives of the aviation community, assuring that his company is taking all measures to ensure the safety of the 737 MAX aircraft.

Over the past five months, the crashes of these aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia have killed 346 people.

Mühlenberg assures that the company is studying the facts that led to the tragedy of the Lion Air flight, as well as new data obtained after the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane, and takes all measures to prevent any further exploitation of the Boeing 737 MAX.

The letter of the director of the company emphasizes that the study of the reasons that led to the collapse of the liner "Ethiopian Airlines" is "Carefully and quickly". It is also alleged that the company's specialists work together with the investigators. As for the results, the timing of their publication depends only on Ethiopia.

The director of the company said that “Boeing” will soon provide new software and organize “Appropriate pilot training for Boeing 737 MAX ». After that, the crews will be able to quickly get out of the difficulties that have manifested themselves during the accident of the aircraft of the “Lion Air” flight.

Recalling that Boeing has been working to ensure flight safety for over a hundred years, Muhlenberg says that the company will continue to provide the best products, train and support its customers all over the world. The task of the company, says the director, "Make safer planes even safer".

On March 10, sixty kilometers from the capital of Ethiopia, there was a crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. 157 people died, three of them are Russians. At the end of October 2018, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 of the Indonesian company Lion Air fell to the Java Sea, a few minutes before it had flown out of Jakarta. 189 people died.

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