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Senior Boeing Pilot Reveals Flaws in 737 Max in Internal Messages

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   A senior pilot at Boeing said he might have unintentionally misled
   regulators, according to a series of internal company messages that
   were released Friday.

   The revelation of the messages cameas Boeing continues to struggle with
   the fallout from two fatal crashes that have grounded its 737
   Maxairplanes.

   The transcript of the messages shows that in 2016 the 737 Max's
   then-chief technical pilot, Mark Forkner, told a co-worker that the
   aircraft's flight system, called MCAS, was "egregious" and "running
   rampant" while he tested it in a flight simulator.

   The MCAS system has been tied to the crashes of the 737 Maxairplanes in
   Indonesia and Ethiopia.

   Forkner said in one text message, "I basically lied to the regulators
   [unknowingly]."

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