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Boeing Disputes Reports it Disabled Max Disagree Alert
The U.S. airframer insists that it did not intentionally disable the feature on Southwest Airlines’ airplanes.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 prepares to touch down at San Francisco International Airport in October 2018. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY) by Colin Brown Photography)
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 prepares to touch down at San Francisco International Airport in October 2018. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY) by Colin Brown Photography)

Boeing insisted on Monday that it did not intentionally deactivate the angle of attack disagree alert on the 737 Max narrowbodies delivered to Southwest Airlines following a report on Sunday by the Wall Street Journal that the carrier “disabled” the feature on models that did not come with angle of attack (AOA) indicators. Boeing did concede, however, that the disagree alert did not activate in airplanes that came with the AOA indicators.