The Chief Executive Officer of the American aircraft maker Boeing has admitted that the software that was installed on the Boeing 737 max most probably caused the two recent fatal accidents, one in Indonesia and the most lost recent one in Ethiopia in March.
Muilenburg’s apology came shortly after the government of Ethiopia released preliminary findings of an investigation in which they found that the pilots has implemented all the instructions that the aircraft maker had provided but failed to bring the aircraft into control.
But the pilots could not regain control of the aircraft. The aircraft continued its nosedive and in four minutes it had crashed killing all 157 people on board.
The findings are a huge indictment for the American aircraft maker. Already the Ethiopian government has revealed it plans to press for damages from boing. But this will only be a fraction of the anticipated suits for damages the company is likely to suffer from relatives of the more than 300 people that perished in both accidents.