{"id":373518,"date":"2020-09-14T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373518"},"modified":"2020-09-14T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:07:35","slug":"former-senior-boeing-officials-defend-737-max-design%e2%80%89report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/former-senior-boeing-officials-defend-737-max-design%e2%80%89report\/","title":{"rendered":"Former senior Boeing officials defend 737 max design:\u2009Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two top Boeing Co. executives have told US government investigators that the design process for the 737 Max was not flawed, despite the plane suffering two fatal crashes, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Leverkuhn and Michael Teal, who oversaw the development of the aircraft, didn\u2019t concede any procedural mistakes, according to the article, which cited transcripts of closed-door interviews that will be part of a government report to be released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkuhn, who served as the Max program manager from 2013 to 2018, said that the process was \u201ccorrect and appropriate,\u201d according to the newspaper. \u201cI do challenge the suggestion that the development was a failure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two top Boeing Co. executives have told US government investigators that the design process for the 737 Max was not flawed, despite the plane suffering two fatal crashes, according to the Wall Street Journal. Keith Leverkuhn and Michael Teal, who oversaw the development of the aircraft, didn\u2019t concede any procedural mistakes, according to the article, which cited transcripts of closed-door interviews that will be part of a government report to be released this week. Leverkuhn, who served as the Max program manager from 2013 to 2018, said that the process was \u201ccorrect and appropriate,\u201d according to the newspaper. \u201cI do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}