Roger Wicker, R-Miss., proposed legislation to give an extension, The Seattle Times reported.īoeing did not respond to a request for comment.īoeing has pushed to make the 737 Max as similar as possible in the cockpit for pilots since its inception, a move blamed in part for crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 that killed 346 people. The exemption expires in December, and if Boeing is unable to get approval for the two planes by then, it may be forced to redesign the cockpits with different systems. “Once these systems are installed and pilots have been properly trained on them, our crews will be better able to identify system failures and prioritize corrective actions that could save lives.” “Boeing needs to proceed with installing modern crew alerting systems on these aircraft to mitigate pilot startle-effect and confusion during complex, compound system malfunctions,” said Allied Pilots Association president Capt. Without more time, Boeing may be forced to redesign the cockpit alert systems. Boeing says it should be allowed to keep one common cockpit system on all 737 planes, even with the 737 Max 7 and 737 Max 10 variants that are in the Federal Aviation Administration certification process. The union for pilots at American Airlines says Congress shouldn’t give Boeing an exemption to keep older-style cockpit alerting systems on new variants of 737 Max jets.Ĭhicago-based Boeing has pushed to keep the same cockpit alarm systems in new 737 Max variants, even getting Congress to pass a two-year exemption in late 2020 to a modernization requirement.
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