Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration intentionally broke part of the 737 Max’s flight control computer. Inside Boeing’s engineering flight...
Plano, Texas — Boeing has completed development of the revised software for the 737 Max, but now it is in...
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Instant messages exchanged between two Boeing technical pilots on the 737 Max program from November 2016 openly discuss the “egregious”...
Olathe, Kan. — I landed an airplane with a single push of a button. It’s not really fair to claim...
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A Transport Canada safety official in an email to his counterparts in the United States, Europe and Brazil outlined his...
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Boeing, regulators and airlines are cautiously optimistic a conclusion to the grounding of the 737 Max is realistically — and finally — in sight. That sets the stage for the jet’s return to flying around September at the earliest. All of this is happening while simultaneously plotting further long-term safety improvements to the aircraft to assuage regulator concerns, including adding systems to the Max that were previously rejected during the jet’s initial development.
Two manufacturing issues compromised an area of the structure in the rear of the Boeing 787 that is unable to withstand the maximum stress that would be experienced by the aircraft in service and could fail.