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Akutan Bandit
I hope that guy is going to prison.......wait, what's his seniority number?
Going to prison for what exactly? Dunk texting?
He said “I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly),”
The other guy says "No, you didn't, we had no idea it behaved like this", and went on to describe how it was behaving for him on approach...
Um, was this a flaps up approach? MCAS does not operate without the flaps up.
These morons were talking about the SIM, the SIM was malfunctioning. It had nothing to do with MCAS.. they later found that out but the news has no interest in reporting that.
When he said "Vince thinks it was MCAS.." Vince was a sim tech, not a test pilot. Neither of the 2 people texting were test pilots. They were technical pilots.
On Friday, in an email to The Seattle Times, Forkner’s lawyer David Gerger defended his client’s part in the message exchange:
“If you read the whole chat, it is obvious that there was no ‘lie’ and the simulator program was not operating properly,” Gerger wrote. “Based on what he was told, Mark thought the plane was safe, and the simulator would be fixed.”
Another person with knowledge of the matter, who also requested anonymity, said Gerger previously provided Boeing with the same general explanation of his client’s comments in the messages. Yet Gerger would not allow Forkner to be questioned by Boeing, this person said.
Grey Goose
Forkner’s exchange with Gustavsson is loose and perhaps boozy.
At the beginning of the exchange, Forkner says, “I’m locked in my hotel room with an ice cold grey goose, I’ll probably fire off a few dozen inappropriate emails before I call it a night.”