{"id":17635,"date":"2022-02-11T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T04:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=17635"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T04:59:02","slug":"us-court-dismisses-two-charges-against-former-boeing-test-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/us-court-dismisses-two-charges-against-former-boeing-test-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court dismisses two charges against former Boeing test pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>A United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas has dismissed two charges in a criminal case against Mark Forkner, a former chief technical pilot for American aerospace manufacturer Boeing. The news was announced on February 8, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K65656-01.jpeg\" alt=\"US Court dismisses two charges against former Boeing test pilot\" class=\"wp-image-17637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K65656-01.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K65656-01-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The former employee was accused of providing false information to air safety authorities while evaluating a key flight stabilizing software feature called <strong>Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The software, which is implemented on Boeing 737 Max aircraft to improve plane handling characteristics and decrease pitch-up tendency at elevated angles of attack, played a crucial role in the two 737 MAX crashes that took place in 2018 and 2019 and killed 346 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Reuters, US District Judge Reed O&#8217;Connor partly granted a request from Forkner\u2019s lawyers and dismissed two charges arguing that \u201c<strong><em>MCAS is intangible computer code in the aircraft\u2019s flight control software [&#8230;], not an aircraft part,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and explained that two particular charges must involve a tangible component of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, the judge decided to proceed with the remaining four charges brought against the former technical pilot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-akasa-air-orders-72-boeing-737-max-planes.jpg\" alt=\"US Court dismisses two charges against former Boeing test pilot\" class=\"wp-image-17638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-akasa-air-orders-72-boeing-737-max-planes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-akasa-air-orders-72-boeing-737-max-planes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Forkner\u2019s case is due to be further examined in March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas has dismissed two charges in a criminal case against Mark Forkner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17643,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions\/17643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}