Aviation Administration: Mcas and Boeing

aviation administration: The exchange occurred as Boeing was trying to convince the Federal Aviation Administration that MCAS was safe, according to The Japan Times. MCAS was designed at least in part to prevent the Max from stalling in some situations. The pilot, Mark Forkner, told another Boeing employee in 2016 that the flight system, called MCAS, was egregious and running rampant while he tested it in a flight simulator. ; So I basically lied to the regulators unknowingly wrote Forkner, then Boeing's chief technical pilot for the 737. The FAA certified the plane without fully understanding MCAS, according to a panel of international safety regulators. FAA allowed Boeing to do so, and most pilots did not know about MCAS until after the first crash, which occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia. Forkner also lobbied FAA to remove mention of MCAS from the operating manual and pilot training for the Max, saying the system would only operate in rare circumstances. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.