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This time, the stabilizer problem centers on the way in which data is processed by the plane's flight computer. If a microprocessor were to fail, CNN reported, it could push the plane's nose 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 is also contending with a supplier defect affecting hundreds of its 737 Max jets. Dreamliner production won’t be halted, Boeing said.
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.
A Continental Airlines 737, assembled in Renton, Wash., and delivered in August, was missing four consecutive screws on the top leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer, the Federal Aviation ...
Boeing & Aerospace Business New electrical flaw grounds more than 60 737 MAXs, adding to Boeing’s woes April 9, 2021 at 5:31 pm Updated May 14, 2021 at 9:40 am By Dominic Gates ...
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 ...
While the FAA rescinded its order that grounded the 737 Max, the planes won't be immediately returning to the sky. The agency must still approve pilot training revision for each US airline ...
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.