Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg apologized Thursday for the 346 lives lost in crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia, according to a letter made public
To earn a Boeing 737 type rating certificate, pilots must complete 21 or more days of instructor-led academics and simulator training. To be certified to fly a 737 MAX, pilots must either complete a 737 MAX specific type-rating course or, if a pilot is already certified to fly the 737NG, they must complete the NG to MAX Differences training.
In a bulletin issued in November, Boeing said that emergency procedures that applied to earlier 737 models would have corrected the problems that may have contributed to the Max 8 crash in Indonesia.
On March 11, before the grounding of the 737 MAX, Boeing outlined “a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX,” that it’s been developing since soon after the Lion Air crash.
But Boeing was unable to complete certification of the MAX 7 and MAX 10 in time. Steeped in controversy, Congress in January continued the exemption to September this year. Certification by the deadline of the MAX 10, the last in the family, was always deemed a challenge because the -10 hadn’t entered flight testing at the time of the
. 18 hours ago · Focus on Max program. The incident has cast new attention on the Max program. Regulators grounded Boeing's best-selling Max 8 aircraft between 2019 and 2020 after two separate crashes killed 346
Boeing 737 MAX on yhdysvaltalaisen Boeingin kaksimoottoristen, kapearunkoisten matkustajalentokoneiden perhe. Se on Boeing 737:n neljäs ja ainoa tuotannossa oleva sukupolvi. Suurin ero aiempiin malleihin on uusien CFM International LEAP-1B -suihkumoottorien käyttö, mutta myös koneen ohjaustuntumaa on tehostettu digitaalisten fly-by-wire
They sound better too. Been on one and the scream from the LEAP-1A engines is so much better than that of the CFM-56. MadMan1244567. • 1 yr. ago. Yes, they are safe now. But that does not absolve Boeing of effectively killing about 500 people, and for that reason I will always prefer Airbus over Boeing. tarwheel.
Problem 2. Those sensors are critical. While some airplanes, particularly those from Boeing rival Airbus, have three such sensors that can work with one another in the case of an erroneous value, Boeing’s 737 MAX has just two, and the aircraft used only one of those sensors to trigger a new automated system — MCAS — that would force the nose of the plane down if the sensor indicated a
A series of simulator flights to test new software developed by Boeing revealed the flaw, according to one of the sources. 737 Max pilot sues Boeing for career damage, 'severe emotional and mental
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