Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX could be cleared to return to the skies in the U.S. as early as this year, despite a continued cascade of damning revelations about the design and approval of the passenger jet that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing a total of 346 people. The Federal Aviation Administration
Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX could be cleared to return to the skies in the U.S. as early as this year, despite a continued cascade of damning revelations about the design and approval of the passenger jet that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing a total of 346 people.
This week represents a crucial test for the future of Boeing, whose CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, will testify before Congress in what promises to be two days of brutal questions about the twin disasters.“The recertification of the aircraft is one thing, but the recertification of the trust and confidence is another,” said Dennis Tajer, a spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents pilots at American Airlines.
Story continuesEuropean regulators, meanwhile, have signaled that they won't necessarily follow the FAA's timeline. Instead they are relying on their own process, which includes testing and oversight independent of the FAA that will determine their timeline for allowing the MAX back in their airspace. Acknowledging this reality, Muilenburg has said a"phased" global return to service is possible.
In a separate chain of instant messages with a Boeing coworker, also in 2016, Forkner wrote that an automated flight control feature called MCAS was “running rampant in the sim" activating when it shouldn't. He also said that he had"unknowingly" lied to regulators, though it's unclear about exactly what.
On Friday, after Indonesian accident investigators released a report blaming the crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX on failures at virtually every level — with the FAA, with Boeing, with the plane's pilots, with the airline's maintenance — DeFazio issued a statement saying it's"clear that reforms will be needed to ensure that future safety-critical systems don’t create single points of failure that bring down new commercial aircraft designs.
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