{"id":933,"date":"2020-04-10T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=933"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:39:06","slug":"southwest-pilots-sue-boeing-over-737-max-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Southwest pilots sue Boeing over 737 MAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/gfgyzo5dorn.jpg\" alt=\"Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked on the tarmac after being grounded\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked on the tarmac after being grounded<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>Pilots from Texas-based Southwest Airlines said Monday they had filed a lawsuit against Boeing, accusing it of &#8220;deliberately misleading&#8221; them over the 737 MAX, which has been grounded after two deadly crashes.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 350 people died in crashes in Indonesia in October 2018 and in Ethiopia in March this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be able to trust Boeing to truthfully disclose the information we need to safely operate our aircraft,&#8221; captain Jonathan Weaks, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the case of the 737 MAX, that absolutely did not happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grounding of the 737 MAX since March eliminated more than 30,000 scheduled Southwest flights and caused over $100 million in lost wages for pilots, SWAPA said.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest is the largest operator of the 737 MAX, and the aircraft may not return to passenger service until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which was filed in Dallas, Texas, said Boeing had falsely claimed the plane was airworthy.<\/p>\n<p>In both crashes, pilots had difficulty controlling the plane once the MCAS anti-stall handling system was activated, according to preliminary investigations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked on the tarmac after being grounded Pilots from Texas-based Southwest Airlines said Monday they had filed a lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[400,458,457,456,80],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","tag-boeing","tag-pilots","tag-southwest","tag-sue","tag-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}