Boeing CEO apologizes for recognized accidents and failures

NEW YORK.- The CEO of

Boeing

, Dennis Muilenburg, today released a video in which he apologizes for the loss of life of the last two accidents of 737 MAX and acknowledges that apparently on both flights, the crews of the Aircraft have automatically activated by mistake an anti-lock function, called MCAS.

"As the pilots have told us, the erroneous activation of the MCAS function can be added to what is already a high workload environment, it is our responsibility to eliminate this risk. ", did he declare.

Muilenburg's statements coincide with
the release of the preliminary report of the Ethiopian authorities on the accident of Ethiopian Airlines, in which he was informed that the pilots of the plane fell on March 10, after only six minutes of flight, followed " several times "the instructions of the Boeing manual for this aircraft, despite the fact that they did not prevent his fall.

Another Boeing 737 MAX from Lion Air with 189 people on board fell in Indonesia last year.

Muilenburg said the company "takes a comprehensive and disciplined approach and will take the time to update the software properly". We are about to finalize and anticipate its certification and implementation in the 737 Max fleet around the world in the coming weeks. "he said

"When Max returns to the air with the software changes made to the MCAS function, he will be one of the safest planes he has piloted," he promised.

AP Agency