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Yesterday, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg\u00a0issued an extraordinary public statement\u00a0in which he apologized for the 346 lives lost in recent crashes of the company’s 737 MAX aircraft — both in Indonesia and in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

On behalf of Boeing, Muilenburg said, “All of us feel the immense gravity of these events across our company and recognize\u00a0the devastation of the families and friends of the loved ones who perished.”<\/p>\n

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In the statement, Muilenburg went on to discuss the\u00a0preliminary report of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident investigation.\u00a0According to\u00a0Muilenburg, “it’s apparent that in both flights the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS, activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information.”<\/p>\n

This is the first time Boeing has publicly acknowledged that the malfunctioning MCAS led to the accidents.<\/p>\n

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Now that the cause of the crashes has been pinpointed, Muilenburg believes that Boeing has the ability to fix it. In the statement, Muilenburg said,<\/p>\n

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The history of our industry shows most accidents are caused by a chain of events. This again is the case here, and we know we can break one of those chain links in these two accidents. As pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment. It’s our responsibility to eliminate this risk. We own it and we know how to do it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Muilenburg is confident that the fix will prevent crashes of 737 MAX aircraft as a result of the faulty MCAS function. Said Muilenburg in the statement,<\/p>\n