The head of Boeing acknowledged Wednesday that the company “clearly fell short” in dealing with the accident-ridden 737 MAX and said that it had not adequately communicated with regulators.
Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg’s remarks to CBS News — his first interview since the global grounding of the plane following two crashes that claimed 346 lives — came as a top airline representative signaled that the top-selling jets could be out of service at least through mid- to late-August.
Muilenburg was pressed by CBS about failing to notify the Federal Aviation Administration for more than a year that the company had deactivated a signal designed to advise the crew of a disagreement between the plane’s “angle of attack” sensors, which measure its angle vis-a-vis oncoming air to warn of impending stalls.
