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Like the original flaw that led to the plane's grounding, the new issue involves the uncommanded movement of the horizontal stabilizer, the little wing near the tail that moves the plane up or down.
American aircraft builder Boeing announced that deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner planes had been delayed again due to a manufacturing issue. According to The Associated Press, Boeing revealed on ...
Boeing delaying some 787 deliveries after finding new glitch The company also is dealing with a supplier defect affecting hundreds of its 737 Max jets.
In the case of the 2019 crash in Ethiopia, it wasn’t a faulty sensor but a problem with the horizontal stabilizer caused the 737 MAX to lose control, and the pilots didn’t have enough clear ...
China’s civil aviation regulator has issued an airworthiness directive that clears the way for Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft to return to flight operations in that country after almost three years.
SEATTLE — Sheet-metal fasteners have been discovered missing on a second Boeing 737 over the weekend during a mandatory inspection of horizontal stabilizers on newer models of the airplane, the ...
A minor change in Boeing’s 737 MAX manufacturing process that was insufficiently vetted caused an electrical system problem that on Friday temporarily grounded more than 60 of the aircraft ...
In June 2016, when the MCAS was reconfigured for low speed flight, the horizontal stabilizer was given more power—or, as it is technically known, authority.
Having manually trimmed the horizontal stabilizer on 737 series aircraft a number of times, I can attest from a pilot’s standpoint it is something that can be easily done once the electronic ...
Boeing must first improve pilot training and modify a critical flight computer, but one airline says it could resume 737 Max flights by the end of the year.
American Airlines says it will start flying its Boeing 737 MAX airliners again on Dec. 29, marking the return of that troubled plane to commercial service after two disastrous crashes led to a 20 ...
Regulators grounded the global Boeing 737 MAX fleet in March 2019 after two crashes in less than five months—Indonesia’s Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302—took 346 lives.