Boeing's checklist of 737 Max fixes grows with wiring issue

Boeing faces a growing checklist of items it could be forced to fix before federal safety officials let the grounded 737 Max airliner fly again

Aerial photos showing Boeing 737 Max airplanes parked at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, US October 20, 2019.

The company said, however, it is too soon to know whether it will need to make any design changes, such as moving the wiring bundles farther apart. Boeing engineers have finished changes to a key software system called MCAS that was activated by faulty sensors in each crash, firmly pushing the noses of the planes down, a condition called runaway stabiliser.

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