Southwest Airlines played a bigger behind-the-scenes role in developing early Boeing 737 MAX pilot training than previously known, according to a recent legal filing that cites internal Southwest and Boeing company documents.
During the development of 737 MAX training, the carrier agreed with Boeing to remove from pilot manuals references to a version of the automated flight-control system that in its later form was blamed by accident investigators for two fatal nosedives of the jet, according to the filing, made in a federal lawsuit in Texas.
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