Federal prosecutors investigating if Boeing misled FAA over 737 Max

Federal prosecutors investigating Boeing are examining whether the planemaker knowingly misled the FAA while it was seeking approval for its 737 Max jet, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing said it was cooperating with the US Department of Justice investigation. The prosecutors in recent months questioned several Boeing employees focusing on whether Mark Forkner, a top pilot at the company, intentionally lied to the regulator about the nature of new flight control software on the jet, according to the report. Forkner had said he might have unintentionally misled regulators, in a series of internal messages from 2016 that became public in October. The messages appeared to have been the first publicly known observations that the MCAS anti-stall system behaved erratically during testing before the aircraft entered service. <br/>