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January 10, 2020 The Boeing 737 Max "was designed by monkey supervised clowns." It is one of the phrases that appear in internal communications between employees of the Boeing company, leaked and disseminated by the Washington Post, and that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have received last month. The 737 Max was no longer allowed to fly after two crashes, one in Indonesia and one in Ethiopia, in which 350 people died.

Some of the messages, sent between 2017 and 2018, focus on the development of flight simulators for the Max and seem to suggest that some employees may have hidden some problems with the aircraft from the FAA, a situation that would end up calling into question the work of the American flight regulator.

Boeing said these communications "totally unacceptable", "do not reflect the airline that we are and must be." "The language used in these communications, and some of the sentiments expressed, are incompatible with Boeing's values ​​and the company is taking appropriate measures in response," the company said in a statement, explaining that disciplinary action will be taken against the staff involved, "once the necessary checks have been completed".

The United States FAA said in a statement that the messages from Boeing employees were "disappointing" but that nothing "indicates security risks that had not already been identified as part of the ongoing review of the proposed changes to the plane." The FAA added that it will continue to focus "on following an in-depth process to return the Boeing 737 Max to passenger service."