A sweeping congressional inquiry into the development and certification of Boeing’s troubled 737 Max airplane finds damning evidence of failures at both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration that “played instrumental and causative roles” in two fatal crashes that killed a total of 346 people. From a report: The House Transportation Committee released an investigative report produced by Democratic staff on…
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Is Boeing’s ‘737 Max’ Safe Now?
America’s Federal Aviation Administration “laid out the proposed fixes for the design flaws in the MAX’s automated flight controls,” reports the Seattle Times, “starting a clock that could see Boeing get the green light sometime next month — with U.S. airlines then scrambling to get a few MAXs flying by year end.” But the newspaper also asks two big questions. “Is…
Boeing Wanted To Wait Three Years To Fix Safety Alert on 737 Max
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Boeing Co. planned to wait three years to fix a non-working safety alert on its 737 Max aircraft and sped up the process only after the first of two deadly crashes involving the planes. The company acknowledged that it originally planned to fix a cockpit warning light in 2020 after two key U.S. lawmakers disclosed…
Boeing’s New Plan: Replace Human Inspectors With Technology
“Boeing is pushing ahead on a plan to cut about 900 inspectors, replacing their jobs with technology improvements at its Seattle area factories, despite being under fire for software flaws in the 737 Max and quality issues in its other aircraft,” reports USA Today. “The union has raised an outcry, calling it a ‘bad decision’ that will ‘eliminate the second set…
Ethiopian Crash Report Indicates Pilots Followed Boeing’s Emergency Procedures
While the findings are not final, initial evidence has raised new concerns about whether Boeing and federal regulators provided sufficient guidance for pilots of the new 737 Max model. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/business/boeing-ethiopian-airlines-crash-report.html?partner=rss&emc=rss