Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report
I know better than to read between the lines on a press release like this, but can't help but notice that it falls far short of accepting responsibility for the problem.He admits that MCAS "activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information" but doesn't admit that this alone directly resulted in the crashes. Rather, he implies that this sets off a chain of events which the pilots are unable to deal with ("pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment") which puts undue blame on the pilots rather than the system.If you'll excuse the analogy, it's as if they installed a new griddle in a restaurant kitchen which randomly gets ten times more hot than it ought to be, with no warning. The cook doesn't know it's too hot until the eggs start burning. Now the manager is saying that since the kitchen is so busy, the cook can't flip the eggs fast enough in response to these randomly fluctuating high temperature events. We're being told it's the cooks' fault.I don't like being bullshitted and find this sort of dodgy language completely inappropriate when 300 people died.