By find I meant that he is the perfect scapegoat for the whole situation. Doesn't have too thick of ties to either SWA, FAA and/or Boeing so everyone involved can just let him take the heat. Hard to believe just one person involved in getting an airplane certified, but apparently so.

But what can we expect, our DOD just admitted via 4star(since when is the civilian controlled military required to do PR for the civilian regime?) general that we droned an aid worker and his family including 7children, noticeably absent from 4star news conference......anybody responsible, anyone even lose a day of pay, let alone their jobs? Our govt has 0% accountability anymore, and they wonder why no one believes in it's abilities.

 

Why should they? Stuff happens in war. There will be an investigation, too soon for any of that to play out.

 

I totally agree there are people way higher up than F that need to be prosecuted too, but he was not reluctant to go above and beyond to make sure nobody knew nothing about MCAS, and it would have been very clear to him that from a safety point they should be told. Hence time...

 

Well, it's hard to believe because it is not so. He is the perfect "scapegoat" because he was the only Boeing employee, that they found emails from, saying the stuff he did. But what we don't know is if the stuff he said was even true.

No one from the FAA has come forward saying "Yeah, he lied to us." Why is that? Even the DOJ report states "(ii) although two of Boeing’s 737 MAX Flight Technical Pilots deceived the FAA AEG about MCAS by way of misleading statements, half-truths, and omissions, others in Boeing disclosed MCAS’s expanded operational scope to different FAA personnel who were responsible for determining whether the 737 MAX met U.S. federal airworthiness standards"

So who are the other "FAA personnel who were responsible for determining whether the 737 MAX met U.S. federal airworthiness standards" and why were they not talking to the AEG?

​​​​​​​The Senate committee report, if you can call it that, complains that "The documents received and the FAA employee interviews conducted produced
inconsistencies, contradictions, and in one case possible lack of candor." They also complained of the slow response from the FAA which allowed several employees to "depart" before being interviewed.

He is just the one left holding the bag, the bag he willingly took.

 

guess his indictment got lost in the mail.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr...indicted-fraud

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Former Boeing 737 MAX Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas returned an indictment today charging a former Chief Technical Pilot for Boeing with deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group in connection with their evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane, and scheming to defraud Boeing’s U.S. based airline customers to obtain tens of millions of dollars for Boeing.

According to court documents, Mark A. Forkner, 49, formerly of Washington State and currently of Keller, Texas, allegedly deceived the FAA AEG during the agency’s evaluation and certification of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane. As alleged in the indictment, Forkner provided the agency with materially false, inaccurate, and incomplete information about a new part of the flight controls for the Boeing 737 MAX called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).

 

Yikes for that dude

 

apparently not

 

COVID Delayed.....

 

Cant wait to see who they call to the stand from the FAA. That will be interesting.