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Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will speak at a press conference following the annual meeting of shareholders at the Field Museum on April 29, 2019 in Chicago, IL. Illinois. Boeing announced that its profits had fallen 21% in the first quarter, following multiple crashes of the company's 737 Max, the company's successful aircraft. (Photo by Jim Young-Pool / Getty Images)
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Boeing President Dennis Muilenburg will testify before House lawmakers next month during his first public hearing since two fatal accidents of the company's famous 737 Max.
Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration are facing several investigations and a careful review of the development and approval of the 737 Max two years ago. The planes have been immobilized since mid-March following two accidents in the five months that killed 346 people.
A flight control system designed to prevent aircraft from taking off on the two crashed flights: a Lion Air 737 Max in Indonesia last October and a plane of the same type Ethiopian Airlines in March.
The National Transportation Safety Board criticized Thursday Boeing for assuming that pilots could handle a multitude of alerts when they faced an emergency, as in both accidents. The NTSB issued a series of recommendations, including asking Boeing to consider the effect of several alerts on the ability of pilots to handle aircraft misfires.
The hearing before the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which held several more hearings on the troubled aircraft, is scheduled for October 30.
John Hamilton, Boeing Chief Commercial Aircraft Engineer and Jennifer Henderson, 737 Chief Pilot, will also appear before the committee.
The announcement comes as Boeing prepares to submit software patches for the 737 Max. The FAA has not said when it plans to allow the jets to fly again.
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