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FAA seeks to mandate inspections of Boeing Max planes for flaw that could cause ‘loss of control’. In December 2021, the flight crew of a 737 Max 8 jet descending on autopilot from the skies ...
March 12, 2024 at 8:24 AM. National Transportation Safety Board via AP file. U.S. air safety regulators found “ dozens of problems ” at facilities owned by Boeing and one of its key suppliers ...
A Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane lands following a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. Federal investigators have confirmed in a report Thursday, March 7, 2023, an account by pilots who say the ...
March 1, 2024 at 5:27 PM. Ellen M. Banner/Pool/The Seattle Times/AP. The Federal Aviation Administration has flagged more safety issues for two troubled families of Boeing planes, the latest in a ...
t. e. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System ( MCAS) is a flight stabilizing feature developed by Boeing that became notorious for its role in two fatal accidents of the 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019, which killed all 346 passengers and crew among both flights. Because the CFM International LEAP engine used on the 737 MAX was larger and ...
August 20, 2011 – First Air Flight 6560, a 737-200, crashed near Resolute Bay in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Of the fifteen people on board, there were three survivors. [90] April 20, 2012 – Bhoja Air Flight 213, a 737-200, crashed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. All 127 passengers and crew on board died.
The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 – longer in many jurisdictions – after 346 people died in two similar crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
The Boeing 737 MAX groundings has had a deep financial effect on the aviation industry and a significant effect on the national economy of the United States. No airline took delivery of the MAX during the groundings. Boeing slowed MAX production to 42 aircraft per month until January 2020, when they halted until the aircraft was reapproved by ...