Boeing CEO faces questions over plane involved in 2 crashes
Boeing Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg
WASHINGTON - (AP) -- It's been exactly one year since a Boeing 737 Max crashed in Indonesia, and the company's CEO is facing tough questioning about the plane from a Senate committee.
Boeing Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg was scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday. It will be the first congressional testimony by a Boeing official since the first of two Max crashes that together killed 346 people.
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In his prepared remarks, Muilenburg says the company knows it made mistakes and got some things wrong. He vows to fix the plane.
Indonesia investigators say Boeing's design of a key flight-control system contributed to the crash of a Lion Air Max last October. Another Max crashed in Ethiopia in March, and other Max jets were grounded.
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