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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Boeing 737 Max 8 planes grounded after Ethiopian crash
The flight recorders for Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 have arrived in Paris, where they will be analyzed for potential clues into Sunday’s plane crash. A French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety spokesman said that the two … Continue reading
Boeing to Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software
Boeing Co. is making an extensive change to the flight-control system in the 737 MAX aircraft involved in October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia, going beyond what many industry officials familiar with the discussions had anticipated. The change was in … Continue reading
Pilots complained about Boeing jets involved in two deadly crashes
The airplane’s nose can tilt down suddenly during takeoff, pilots aren’t being adequately trained on the autopilot system, and the operations manual is “criminally insufficient.” These are the complaints of US pilots in incident reports involving Boeing’s 737 Max 8 … Continue reading
President Donald Trump says airplanes are ‘becoming far too complex to fly’
CLOSE A Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia killing everyone on board. The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane marks the second deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 in the past five months. So is there a problem with … Continue reading
E.U. Suspends Boeing 737 Max 8 Operations, but F.A.A. Stands Firm
After the crash of Lion Air Flight 610, concerns arose about the aircraft’s flight control systems. The main changes now being developed to those systems include limiting how much the plane’s computers can automatically pull down the nose of the … Continue reading
Countries and carriers around the globe ground the 737 Max 8
SINGAPORE (AP) — A growing number of airlines around the world have grounded their Boeing 737 Max 8 jets following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people on Sunday, five months after a similar Indonesian Lion … Continue reading
Southwest’s Fatal Accident Prompts Scrutiny of Engine Inspections
“It’s unusual that a fan blade would fail twice on the same engine model, with the same carrier, over two years,” said Kevin Michaels, the president of AeroDynamic Advisory in Ann Arbor, Mich., who has worked as a gas turbine … Continue reading