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Months of tumult preceded Boeing CEO’s firing

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Dec 24. 2019
File Photo:Boeing Suspends 737 MAX BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - DECEMBER 18: 4 Boeing 737 MAX from TUI fly Belgium are docked in Brussels on December 18, 2019. On December 16, 2019, Boeing announced: 'Safely returning the 737 MAX to service is our top priority. We know that the process of approving the 737 MAX's return to service, and of determining appropriate training requirements, must be extraordinarily thorough and robust, to ensure that our regulators, customers, and the flying public have confidence in the 737 MAX updates. As we have previously said, the FAA and global regulatory authorities determine the timeline for certification and return to service. We remain fully committed to supporting this process. It is our duty to ensure that every requirement is fulfilled, and every question from our regulators answered. Throughout the grounding of the 737 MAX, Boeing has continued to build new airplanes and there are now approximately 400 airplanes in storage. We have previously stated that we would continually evaluate our production plans should the MAX grounding continue longer than we expected. As a result of this ongoing evaluation, we have decided to prioritize the delivery of stored aircraft and temporarily suspend production on the 737 program beginning next month.' Created in 2004 under the name of TUI Airlines Belgium, it took over, after the bankruptcy of Sobelair, which until then had been the main airline of the tour operator Jetair, to transport Belgian tourists to their destination. On October 19, 2016, Jetairfly and the other companies in the TUI group were renamed TUI Airlines to bring together the different brands of the group under the same name. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

File Photo:Boeing Suspends 737 MAX BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – DECEMBER 18: 4 Boeing 737 MAX from TUI fly Belgium are docked in Brussels on December 18, 2019. On December 16, 2019, Boeing announced: ‘Safely returning the 737 MAX to service is our top priority. We know that the process of approving the 737 MAX’s return to service, and of determining appropriate training requirements, must be extraordinarily thorough and robust, to ensure that our regulators, customers, and the flying public have confidence in the 737 MAX updates. As we have previously said, the FAA and global regulatory authorities determine the timeline for certification and return to service. We remain fully committed to supporting this process. It is our duty to ensure that every requirement is fulfilled, and every question from our regulators answered. Throughout the grounding of the 737 MAX, Boeing has continued to build new airplanes and there are now approximately 400 airplanes in storage. We have previously stated that we would continually evaluate our production plans should the MAX grounding continue longer than we expected. As a result of this ongoing evaluation, we have decided to prioritize the delivery of stored aircraft and temporarily suspend production on the 737 program beginning next month.’ Created in 2004 under the name of TUI Airlines Belgium, it took over, after the bankruptcy of Sobelair, which until then had been the main airline of the tour operator Jetair, to transport Belgian tourists to their destination. On October 19, 2016, Jetairfly and the other companies in the TUI group were renamed TUI Airlines to bring together the different brands of the group under the same name. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
By The Washington Post · Rachel Siegel 

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Dennis Muilenberg’s firing Monday came after more than a year of controversy over the 737 Max, which had become Boeing’s biggest seller, largely on promises that it required no retraining of pilots already proficient in flying earlier 737 designs.

That, however, turned out to be, at best, an exaggeration when two crashes led to the discovery that a software program intended to help fly the planes actually made them difficult to control under certain conditions. Some pilots weren’t even aware that the software had been installed on the planes.

Families of the more than 300 people who died in the two crashes have charged that Boeing should have known that its planes were vulnerable to crashes and that regulators in the United States were lax in allowing Boeing essentially to self-certify that the planes were safe.

Here’s a timeline of how that controversy unfolded.

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Oct. 29, 2018

A 737 Max jet operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashes into the Java Sea after takeoff, killing 189 people. Suspicion immediately falls on control problems that the pilots had reported to the control tower after takeoff. A preliminary accident report released Nov. 28, 2018, suggests that a malfunction of a software system known as MCAS, or the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, played a role in the crash. Boeing defended the MCAS, noting that a manual instructed pilots how to turn the system off if it malfunctioned.

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March 10, 2019

Another Max 8 crashes in Ethiopia, killing 157 people. As in the previous crash, investigators found that bad information from an external sensor caused the MCAS to automatically push the plane’s nose down repeatedly.

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March 11, 2019

Ethiopia grounds all Max 8 aircraft, saying that while it has not yet determined the cause of the crash, grounding was an extra safety precaution. China also announces that its airlines are suspending flights of the aircraft.

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March 12, 2019

Amid growing pressure to ground the planes throughout the world, Muilenburg calls President Donald Trump and says the planes are safe. The Federal Aviation Administration asserts that the planes are airworthy.

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March 13, 2019

The FAA changes course after Canadian authorities announce that they would ground the aircraft. Trump tweets the news himself: “Any plane currently in the air will go to its destination and thereafter be grounded until further notice,” he says. “The safety of the American people, and all people, is our paramount concern.”

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March 27, 2019

Boeing announces that it will issue fixes to the MCAS software but that it still believes pilots will require minimal training to operate the system.

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April 4, 2019

Boeing announces that it has found a second software flaw in the 737 Max design, unrelated to MCAS. It says it is working to fix that flaw, which involves flaps that control the plane’s movement. The same day, a preliminary report on the Ethiopian crash says that the pilots performed all the procedures Boeing had recommended to disable the MCAS software, but that the plane had crashed anyway.

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Oct. 14, 2019

Muilenberg, who has served as both the company’s chief executive and its chairman, is stripped of his chairman title in a move the board says would help him focus on fixing the 737 Max problem.

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Oct. 25, 2019

Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee issues its final report on the Lion Air crash, blaming the MCAS software system for the crash and saying that Boeing had been incorrect in its assumptions about how pilots would react if the system malfunctioned.

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Oct. 29, 2019

Muilenberg appears before the Senate Commerce Committee but declines to back legislation that would give the FAA a stronger role in certifying that aircraft are safe to fly.

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Nov. 11, 2019

Boeing announces that it intends to resume delivering 737 Max aircraft to customers in December and that it believes airlines would be able to resume flying the planes in January.

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Dec. 11, 2019

FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson says that he won’t clear the plane to fly before 2020 and that the agency is investigating 737 production issues in Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington. Approval is not likely until at least February and could be delayed until March, U.S. officials tell Reuters.

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Dec. 12, 2019

Muilenberg meets with Dickson. Boeing subsequently announces that it will not seek early FAA approval to begin shipping 737 Max aircraft to customers.

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Dec. 16, 2019

Boeing announces that it will temporarily suspend 737 Max production in January. The next day, Southwest Airlines, Boeing’s largest 737 Max customer, announces that it has pulled the aircraft from its flight schedules through April.

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Dec. 23, 2019

Boeing’s board of directors announces that it has fired Muilenberg, effective immediately, and that he will be replaced by Chairman David Calhoun, starting Jan. 13.

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