Boeing pilots discussed 'fundamental issues' with 737 MAX in internal messages

Fox News report: Former NTSB chairman James Hall discusses his reactions to the instant messages revealing Boeing 737 Max's problems may have began two years ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMXJ-TDxag

Old electronic data doesn't just go away. It's stored someplace, just waiting for police or investigators to find it. In this cause, it will eventually provide a timeline for how the 737Max development turned into a disaster, and who had knowledge of the events. It will tell us whether there was criminal negligence. The only good thing about this mess is that it will be come a prime teaching tool in business schools of how NOT to run a company.

How much did VW pay for lying about a pollution test on their cars it never killed a single person , This is outrageous that they new about this and hid the issues

Actually, what the test pilots were discussing in their IMs to each other described the "Speed Trim" system. This was incorporated since the B-737-300 was introduced. It is unrelated to the MCAS system. Please review this website for more detailed information: (click on "Stab Trim")

http://www.b737.org.uk/flightcontrols.htm

millions of dollars spent by the airlines on these 737 max aircraft,yet boeing did not perfect the problems before selling/releasing them to the airlines? thats kind of like building an expensive new home and finding serious cracks in the walls after moving in, and having the builder say,oops, we didn't check to see if the rebar was stable and the concrete hardened properly!!what is going to happen to the thousands of airplanes sitting or parked in various places, back to the desert junkpile for parts???why didn't boeing listen to the pilots concerns when first reported?

No surprise, the whole Max debacle is the result of unbridled capitalism.

It was obvious to intelligent people from the start what the problem was but the Boeing "defenders" blathered endlessly on here.

As usual the "defenders" have gone back to eating their grass.

This article has "foul play" written right into the source, and the first couple of paragraphs. CNN Politics? Really, because this is an aviation issue, last I checked. Yet here we go again with anonymous sources and the direct injection of a narrative that keeps this otherwise brilliant aircraft rotting away on the ground. This all appears to be an orchestrated take-down of the 737MAX. I can hear the accusations of "conspiracy theorist" already, but so be it. This is not organic. If I hopped an imaginary 737MAX flight today, I would get to my destination just fine. Thus, this is no longer an effort to increase safety and do right by those we sadly lost, but has turned into a full blown political circus. Sad for all of aviation and enthusiasts.