Audio Of A November 27 Meeting Leaked To The Media

An audio recording of a meeting between the Allied Pilots Association and Boeing officials held before a 737 MAX went down in Ethiopia shows that the pilots confronted the company about the MCAS which has become the focus of that accident as well as one in Indonesia.

CNN reports that the in the meeting, which was held on November 27, the pilots expressed frustration that they had not been made aware of the MCAS on the new airplanes. One pilot can be heard saying "We flat out deserve to know what is on our airplanes." An unidentified Boeing official responded "I don't disagree."

But the Boeing representative went on to say that he does not "know that understanding this system would have changed the outcome of this. In a million miles you're going to maybe fly this airplane, and maybe once you're going to see this ever."

Boeing recently said that it knew as far back as 2017 that there was a software issue with the MCAS, and planned to provide a solution with a regular software update. But that software update had not been deployed even following the Lion Air accident.

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