Families of crash passengers want wider review of Boeing Max
Dozens of relatives of passengers who died in the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max say US regulators should expand their current review of the jet before it is allowed to fly again. Family members say that in focusing on a flight-control system implicated in the crashes, the FAA might miss other potential safety hazards on the plane. FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson is likely to be asked about the extent of the FAA's review of the plane when he appears before a House committee on Wednesday. Investigations into the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia have pointed to a flight-control system called MCAS automatically pushing the noses of the planes down in response to faulty readings from a single sensor. The Max has been grounded worldwide while Boeing fixes the problems. The FAA is reviewing changes that Boeing is making to MCAS and a separate issue around flight-control computers, but some relatives of the passengers want a nose-to-tail review of every critical system on the plane. “That's a tombstone mentality” to focus only on MCAS, said Nadia Milleron, whose daughter died in the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max. “You don't just wait until people die to address (other) systems."<br/>
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Families of crash passengers want wider review of Boeing Max
Dozens of relatives of passengers who died in the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max say US regulators should expand their current review of the jet before it is allowed to fly again. Family members say that in focusing on a flight-control system implicated in the crashes, the FAA might miss other potential safety hazards on the plane. FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson is likely to be asked about the extent of the FAA's review of the plane when he appears before a House committee on Wednesday. Investigations into the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia have pointed to a flight-control system called MCAS automatically pushing the noses of the planes down in response to faulty readings from a single sensor. The Max has been grounded worldwide while Boeing fixes the problems. The FAA is reviewing changes that Boeing is making to MCAS and a separate issue around flight-control computers, but some relatives of the passengers want a nose-to-tail review of every critical system on the plane. “That's a tombstone mentality” to focus only on MCAS, said Nadia Milleron, whose daughter died in the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max. “You don't just wait until people die to address (other) systems."<br/>
