Boeing 737 tragedy .. Director of the company accused of sending passengers in the "aircraft coffins"

Boeing general manager Dennis Muelenberg was harshly treated in the US Congress on Tuesday, with bipartisan parliamentarians sharply attacking his aircraft manufacturer, Le Monde newspaper reported.

During a hearing before a Senate committee, MPs accused Mullenberg of sending passengers aboard two 737 Max planes owned by Indonesia's Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines in "coffins".

Regrettably, Müllenberg tried to admit and apologize from the very first minutes of the hearing, but his defense plan was quickly spoiled when he was asked the first question of mail sent by Mark Vöckner, one of the company's pilots, to a colleague about planes. Max 737 ".

In these letters, recently disclosed by US lawmakers, Vorkner resembles the task of persuading the Federal Aviation Agency to ratify the "Maneuverability Enhancement System" on the 737 MAX, blamed for the "Star Wars epic".

"Now I am preparing for breakfast, and then I will try to play a part of the trick of the Jedi on the brains of these people," he wrote in one reference to a game that appeared in the movie "Star Wars."

Asked when he knew of the 2016 messages, Muellenberg responded with a low voice that this had happened earlier this year, acknowledging that it was before the second incident.

When Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, came up with his questions to Muelenburg, he asked relatives of those missing in the two incidents to stand up and waving pictures of their relatives, making the Boeing director so impressed by the pain on their faces.

"Boeing came to my office shortly after the incident," said Senator Blumenthal. "These accidents were due to the mistakes of the pilots, but the fact is that these pilots never had any chance. Their families didn't know they were in the coffins because Boeing I decided to hide the automatic control program from the pilots. "

The two Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX and Ethiopian Airlines crashed in October 2018 and in March 2019 with a time difference of six months between them, killing 346 people and halting the entire fleet of the aircraft worldwide. the work.

In both incidents, the finger-pointing system was blamed for preventing the plane from crashing, which the pilots were unaware of because it was simply not included in the plane's navigational manual.