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Boeing Chief To Families Of Crash Victims: 'We Are Sorry, Deeply And Truly'

Dennis Muilenburg was grilled about whether Boeing had a cozy relationship with the FAA and if the airline tried to conceal information about flaws in its onboard flight-control system, called MCAS.

Dennis Muilenburg, the president and CEO of Boeing, appeared before a Senate panel Tuesday where he was peppered with questions regarding a pair of crashes of 737 Max jets and was asked if the company purposefully hid sensitive information about flaws in its onboard flight system from regulators.

Muilenburg spent most of the two and half hours acknowledging that Boeing made mistakes. He also offered condolences to the relatives of the 346 people killed in the 2018 Lion Air crash

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