WASHINGTON/CHICAGO • Federal aviation regulators have ordered Boeing to fix a second problem with the flight-control system of its grounded 737 Max, the company has acknowledged.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO • Federal aviation regulators have ordered Boeing to fix a second problem with the flight-control system of its grounded 737 Max, the company has acknowledged.
In a brief summary of the much-anticipated preliminary report on the March 10 crash, Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges told reporters that the aircraft flight-control system contributed to the plane's difficulty in gaining altitude after it left Addis Ababa airport. It crashed six minutes later, killing all 157 on board.
That additional problem pertains to software affecting flaps and other flight stabilisation hardware and is therefore classified as critical to flight safety, said two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing probe. "Obviously, we ended up at a situation that in hindsight was not supposed to happen," one of the officials familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post.
"We are taking steps to thoroughly address this relatively minor issue and already have the solution in the works to do that."
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