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An American politician who blamed the pilot of the Boeing 737 Max flight for making a pilot error was "seriously misinformed," said the carrier's boss.
Republican Sam Graves said at a hearing in the House of Representatives last month that the "facts" in the investigations after accidents in Ethiopia and Indonesia "reveal that the pilot's error is a factor in these tragically fatal accidents ".
He also said that "the trained pilots in the United States could have managed the situation successfully" in both incidents.
In an interview with the BBC on Monday, Ethiopian Airlines general manager Tewolde GebreMariam said the critics of his crew's actions were "seriously misinformed," and that Graves "did not have the facts at the time." hand".
"The people who made these comments should ask themselves:" Why did they hit 380 aircraft in the world? "The facts speak for themselves," he said.
The 737 MAX 8 is currently blocked worldwide after the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which killed 157 people aboard the ship and scanned the new Boeing model's anti-stall system.
The pilots were already worried about the safety of the model after the accident occurred in Indonesia in October 2018, of a Lion Air 737 MAX 8 that killed 189 people.
Boeing is currently working on submitting a modified version of the aircraft software and hopes to get approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its counterparts around the world.
But aviation regulators who met last month have not been able to determine when a jet plane could again be allowed to fly, causing costly headaches to the airline's airlines. whole world.
Revelations of close links between Boeing and the FAA during MAX testing have created a crisis of confidence among the public and airline pilots, as well as some of the other civil aviation regulators.
"We have work to do to win and win the public's trust," Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg told the Paris Aerospace Competition on Sunday.
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