Boeing 延期するd 直す/買収する,八百長をする of 欠陥のある 737 MAX 警告 light for three years -U.S. 国会議員s

By Eric M. Johnson

SEATTLE, June 7 (Reuters) - Boeing Co learned that a 操縦室 警告 light on its 737 MAX ジェット旅客機 was 欠陥のある in 2017 but decided to defer 直す/買収する,八百長をするing it until 2020, U.S. 国会議員s said on Friday.

The 欠陥のある 警告 light 警報s 操縦するs when two sensors that 手段 the angle between the airflow and the wing 同意しない. 欠陥のある "angle of attack" data is 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd of playing a 役割 in two deadly 衝突,墜落s 伴う/関わるing Boeing's best-selling 737 MAX in Indonesia in October and in Ethiopia in March.

Those 衝突,墜落s, which killed 346 people, have 誘発する/引き起こすd 調査s by 航空 regulators and U.S. 国会議員s and left Chicago-based Boeing 直面するing one of the biggest crises in its more than 100-year history.

Boeing decided in November 2017 to defer a ソフトウェア update to 訂正する the いわゆる AOA 同意しない 警報 defect until 2020, three years after discovering the 欠陥, U.S. Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Rick Larsen said in a 圧力(をかける) 解放(する) on Friday. Boeing only 加速するd this schedule after the Lion 空気/公表する 事故 in Indonesia, they 追加するd.

Boeing 広報担当者 Gordon Johndroe said by email that a company safety review 設立する the absence of the AOA 同意しない 警報 did not 逆に 衝撃 airplane safety or 操作/手術.

"Based on the safety review, the update was scheduled for the MAX 10 入ること/参加(者) into service in 2020," Johndroe said. "We fell short in the 実施 of the AoA 同意しない 警報 and are taking steps to 演説(する)/住所 these 問題/発行するs so they do not occur again."

Boeing has said it discovered the problem in 2017, soon after it began 配達するing its 最高の,を越す-selling 737 MAX 航空機 to 顧客s. But it did not 知らせる the U.S. 連邦の 航空 行政 (FAA) about the defect until after the Lion 空気/公表する 衝突,墜落 more than one year later, the 国会議員s said.

The 衆議院 委員会 on Transportation and 組織/基盤/下部構造 sent letters to Boeing, 供給者 部隊d 科学(工学)技術s Corp and the FAA requesting furth er 詳細(に述べる)s on the AoA 同意しない 警報, the 国会議員s said.

The letter was the second such 記録,記録的な/記録するs request sent by the 委員会 to Boeing and the FAA 関係のある to its 調査 into the MAX 航空機. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle Editing by Tom Brown)

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