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After Crashes, a Boeing 737 MAX Fix Isn’t Coming Quickly
27.07.2023 - 18:07 / smartertravel.com
In the three weeks since the FAA grounded Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, we’ve learned a lot about the plane and what likely caused the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes. But we’re still waiting to hear when, exactly, Boeing will have a fix for the aircraft to return to the skies.
Boeing is working on a software fix to the 737 MAX’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), but is not ready to deploy it. According to Bloomberg, the software update aims to make the plane’s system “less aggressive in pushing down a plane’s nose, and to add redundancy so that it’s less likely to activate when other systems malfunction.”
Related:How to Find Out if U.S. Emergency Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 Planes Will Affect YouHowever, that fix is still “weeks” away, and would be subject to review. According to the Seattle Times, “Boeing will submit the software update for FAA review ‘once completed in the coming weeks,’ the company said.” Boeing executives have said the updates will take “about an hour” to install once they are final and approved by the FAA.
Will Travelers Trust the Fix?The FAA issued a statement Monday acknowledging this extended timeline, saying the software update will receive a “rigorous safety review.” The Seattle Times notes that “foreign regulators in Canada and Europe have indicated that they will do their own reviews of the Boeing fix and won’t simply take the FAA’s word for it.”
Boeing added that it is “working to demonstrate that we have identified and appropriately addressed all certification requirements and will be submitting for FAA review once completed in the coming weeks. Safety is our first priority, and we will take a thorough and methodical approach to the development and testing of the update to ensure we take the time to get it right.”
Related:Return of Troubled Boeing 737 MAX Planes Will Come in Phases What It All Means for TravelersBut as we learn more about the crashes, it’s harder to see this as simply an isolated issue. Each revelation raises serious questions, from the flawed flight control system to the inadequate emergency procedure Boeing recommended to its pilots, not to mention the fact that the FAA may have gone easy on Boeing.
How did Boeing get these important functions wrong? How did the FAA not catch it? Was the FAA too deferential to Boeing in its certification process? And, most troubling, do these questions go deeper into other aspects of the model, or to the broader Boeing fleet?
For travelers, this means there are two storylines to follow. One is the inevitable software fix and approval process for the 737 MAX, which will play out over the upcoming weeks and months. People may question the airworthiness of these planes, and who could
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