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Boeing: ready the software upgrade for the B-737 MAX aircraft

It must be certified again by the FAA

According to what was declared by the Federal Aviation Administration Boeing will soon issue a bulletin with which it permit to start the installation of the updated software for the B-737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft, which should allow to avoid a reading error by the Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor that could be the basis of the two accidents involving the aircraft (Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air). Boeing...

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Washington, Distretto di Columbia, Stati Uniti, 03/21/2019 16:09
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

AirlinesB-737 MAX 8: Garuda in negotiations with Boeing to cancel the order

It would be practically impossible for several reasons

Garuda Indonesia -according to the US press- wrote to Boeing to explaine the willingness to cancel the order made for 49 B-737 MAX 8 worth $ 4.9 billion. Of these, only one was delivered by the aerospace... more

AccidentsEthiopian accident: pilot had not been trained in the new airplane simultaneous?

It could be one of the causes of the disaster

Yared Getachew, the 29-year-old commander of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft of Ethiopian Airlines -which crashed in Addis Ababa on 10 March killing the 157 people on board-, would never have been trained... more

Civil aviationB-737 MAX: investigation by the DoT confirmed

Checks on the aircraft certification process

The doubt that the same malfunction caused the two accidents of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft -of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines- in addition to causing the global grounding of the US aircraft, also... more

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