Doesn't do anything to encourage me to fly, I must be the last sod in the UK never to have stepped foot on any aircraft lol........
Doesn't do anything to encourage me to fly, I must be the last sod in the UK never to have stepped foot on any aircraft lol........
FAA failed to properly review 737 MAX
A panel of international air safety regulators on Friday harshly criticized the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) review of a safety system on Boeing’s (BA.N) 737 MAX airliner later tied to two crashes that killed all 346 people aboard.
The Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR) was commissioned by the FAA in April to look into the agency’s oversight and approval of the so-called MCAS anti-stall system.
The report also faulted Boeing for assumptions it made in designing the airplane and found areas where Boeing could improve processes.
“The JATR team found that the MCAS was not evaluated as a complete and integrated function in the certification documents that were submitted to the FAA,” the 69-page series of findings and recommendations said.
“The lack of a unified top-down development and evaluation of the system function and its safety analyses, combined with the extensive and fragmented documentation, made it difficult to assess whether compliance was fully demonstrated.”...
Edit JATR report...pdf link.
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Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA
Boeing Co turned over instant messages from 2016 between two employees that suggest the airplane maker may have misled the Federal Aviation Administration about a key safety system on the grounded 737 MAX, sources briefed on the matter said.
The FAA confirmed Friday that Boeing told it a day earlier about internal messages it had discovered “some months ago” that characterize “certain communications with the FAA during the original certification of the 737 MAX in 2016.”
The FAA said it found the messages “concerning” and “is reviewing this information to determine what action is appropriate.” It prompted a letter from FAA Administrator Steve Dickson to Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg demanding an “immediate” explanation for the delay in turning over the documents.
Sources told Reuters the Boeing internal messages raised questions about the performance of the so-called MCAS anti-stall system that has been tied to the two fatal crashes in five months.
The messages are between the MAX’s then-chief technical pilot and another Boeing pilot, the sources said, and raised questions about the MCAS’s performance in the simulator. The pilot has since left Boeing...
The sad thing is people have forgotten all about 346 people who died due to this, it's almost forgotten in the discussion now, it really does ram it home to think that those 346 people so far are worth $50 million, an absolute pittance and really shows the priority to the US regulators, Boeing et al.
Boeing Progress on 737 MAX Safe Return to Service
CHICAGO, Oct. 22, 2019—Boeing has made significant progress over the past several months in support of safely returning the 737 MAX to service as the company continues to work with the FAA and other global regulators on the process laid out for certifying the 737 MAX software and related training updates. The company has also made significant governance and operational changes to further sharpen its focus.
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According to the BBC: Boeing expects 737 Max to fly again by New Year.
Should be some cheap fares on offer to entice customers when this excuse for a plane returns to service. Not that I’ll be tempted for a few years.....
Sully sums it up.......
http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-...imes-magazine/
Make that 2 of us.Originally Posted by xellos99
I turned 50 last week and despite working at Heathrow for 4 years and Bristol Airport for 2 years I’ve not come close to flying.
Cheers,
Ben
..... for I have become the Jedi of flippers
" an extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife "
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