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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently discovered a "potential risk" in the 737 Max aircraft. Boeing was asked to address the security issue. She emphasized that she would only give the aircraft permission to fly again if she rated it as "safe".
Details of the incident did not make the FAA. However, informed sources reported that FAA pilots had difficulties in regaining control of the aircraft when testing with a flight simulator after the MCAS stabilization system was activated. A problem with the system pushing the nose of the aircraft in the event of an impending stall is thought to be the cause of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes totaling 346 dead.
The Group is currently changing the automatic stabilization system. The authority did not describe the new problem in more detail. Boeing said it had been asked by the FAA to change a specific flight characteristic through software adjustments. Boeing is working on a solution to the problem and will not submit the aircraft for certification until all FAA requirements are met.
Start release takes longer
The new problem is likely to delay the launch clearance for the 737: Had it last said that the ban could possibly be canceled this month, the insiders now said that a first test flight will not take place before July 8. The FAA will then need at least two to three weeks to test the results of the tests. Boeing said they are working closely with the FAA to bring the MAX safely back into the air.
When a 737 MAX crashed in Indonesia in October 2018, all 189 inmates were killed. In another disaster in Ethiopia in March, 157 people died. As a result, in mid-March, a global ban on the Boeing 737 MAX was imposed, which remains until further notice. The aircraft type is the best-selling of the US manufacturer.
Important Boeing customers such as American Airlines and Southwest Airlines will not have the 737 MAX on the flight schedule until the beginning of September. Now, United Airlines also decided to take the Boeing 737 Max out of its schedules until 3 September. This leads to the cancellation of about 1900 flights in August alone.
Significant losses
For Boeing and the affected airlines, the flight freeze is a heavy financial burden, as the annual reports for the first quarter already showed. However, Boeing itself is massively in the criticism – among other things, because of the charge to have rushed the development of the new aircraft model due to high pressure from competition.
Whether with the original certification of the accident flyers everything went right, is also the subject of investigation by the US authorities. As part of the clarification of the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, Boeing also admitted to having already known about a problem of 737 Max about a year before the first disaster. Although a few months after delivery of the series in May 2017, it was determined that something was wrong with the warning system in the cockpits, the FAA was informed only after the first crash in the fall of 2018.
kle / lh (afp, dpa, rtre)
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