The day after Ethiopia's minister of transportation released a preliminary crash report on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, four Boeing employees called an FAA whistleblower hotline for reporting aviation safety issues, a source says
A source familiar with the matter says the hotline submissions involve current and former Boeing employees describing issues related to the angle of attack sensor -- a vane that measures the plane's angle in the air -- and the anti-stall system called
control cut-out switches, which disengage the system. The system in the two crashes, calling it one link in a"chain of events" that caused the crashes.
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