Boeing says optional 737 Max alert was ‘not activated as intended’ GlobeBusiness
A number of grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft parked at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, U.S. on March 26, 2019.Boeing Co. said an alert for angle-of-attack sensors on its 737 Max jets was “not activated as intended” for some customers, responding to reports it failed to tell Southwest Airlines Co. and the U.S. regulator that the optional feature was deactivated before a crash in Indonesia in October.
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that unbeknown to Southwest and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration , the alerts were not activated on the carrier’s 737 Max jets. “The disagree alert was tied or linked into the angle-of-attack indicator, which is an optional feature on the Max,” the manufacturer said in a statement. “Unless an airline opted for the angle-of-attack indicator, the disagree alert was not operable…Boeing did not intentionally or otherwise deactivate the disagree alert on its Max airplanes.”
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