HCL Technologies, Cyient refute claims in Boeing 737 MAX report

Indian engineers were blamed for faults in planes that crashed

A recent report blaming Indian engineers for faults in planemaker Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft has left the Indian technology industry feeling targeted and online forums buzzing. 

Bloomberg on Saturday reported that at the heart of Boeing aircraft’s ongoing crisis, which led to two major crashes killing 346 people, was the software work it outsourced to Indian engineers from HCL Technologies and Hyderabad-based Cyient.

“Based on resumes posted on social media, HCL engineers helped develop and test the MAX’s flight-display software, while employees from another Indian company, Cyient, handled software for flight-test equipment,” Bloomberg had reported. 

It further quoted a former Boeing software engineer