A serious air incident occurred in the American city of Jacksonville, Florida. When landing, the Boeing 737 skidded off the runway and ended up in a river. According to updated data, there were 143 people on board the plane - 136 passengers and seven crew members, all of them...
The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States received at least four new complaints about the security system of Boeing 737 Max airliners. Some of the reported problems were related to the same crashes that led to the plane crashes in Indonesia in October 2018 and in ...
Sources at Boeing noted that this is a failure that is critical to flight safety. The Boeing Corporation has admitted the presence of another software failure on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, in addition to an error in the MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) system, writes Today. "We accept…
The pilots reported mechanical problems and the plane returned to the airport. On March 26, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max landed urgently at Orlando Airport due to engine problems. There were no passengers on board, the airliner was heading to California, writes TASS with ...
Pilots who switched to Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from older 737 models took a short, self-guided online course that did not mention the new system, which is at the center of the investigation after two air crashes, CNN told CNN. Pilots from Southwest Airlines and American Airlines passed ...
Boeing has made it a paid option for those safety features that must be mandatory during the flight. For Boeing and other aircraft manufacturers, the practice of raising extra money to upgrade a standard aircraft can be lucrative. The leading airlines around the world have to pay well, ...
Boeing considers such conclusions to be premature. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmavit Moges said the data from the "black boxes" of the Boeing 10 MAX 737 crashed on March 8 show "obvious similarities" with the crash of the aircraft of the same model in Indonesia in October 2018, writes Esquire. However, Boeing believes that the conclusions ...
Pilots must be trained for flying on specially equipped simulators that simulate the cockpit of a real aircraft of a certain model. Many pilots who were supposed to fly the Boeing 737 MAX, which crashed in Ethiopia, knew how to fly this aircraft model using iPads, because ...
An important wreck was found at the crash site of the Boeing 737 Max 8 that could reveal the mystery of the death of the Ethiopian plane. They shed light on the tragedy and the negotiations of the liner pilot with the ground in the last minutes before the disaster. Five days after the crash of the latest aircraft in Ethiopia ...
The pilot of the Boeing 737 Max plane, which crashed in Ethiopia, informed the controllers of the problems in the flight control system and wanted to return to the airport. This was told by Tevolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, in whose fleet the crashed plane was, writes Mail.ru. According to Gebremariam, he listened to a recording of conversations between the pilot and the controllers ...