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Boeing Describes Why Max Did Not Carry Disagree Alert

The U.S. airframer insists the lack of the alert feature did not compromise safety of the 737 Max.

By Gregory Polek • Senior Editor

May 6, 2019

Six days after AIN reported that early in the development of the 737 Max Boeing failed to recognize that a planned angle-of-attack indication disagree alert would not work on airplanes not equipped with an AOA indicator, the company issued a statement on Sunday attempting to explain why it did not tell airlines or the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that feature did not come as standard equipment on the new model until the October 29, 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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