Finally, he was asked to say plainly why the FAA had only issued an advisory to pilots and given Boeing months to modify the MCAS software, when its own internal assessment found such a high risk of another incident. This time he gave a fuller answer, before trailing off into one more process. “We knew that [the] eventual solution would be to have the modification and based on our risk assessment, we felt that this, that we have sufficient time to be able to do the modification, ah, you know, and get the final fix,” he said. “Which—what that means typically—we refer to it as ‘closing
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