European regulators to give Boeing 737 MAX fix extra scrutiny
Boeing’s efforts to return the grounded 737 MAX airliner to the sky after 2 fatal crashes face another hurdle after the head of EASA said it will give extra scrutiny to the plane before clearing it to fly. Boeing is working on a fix to a stall-prevention system on the MAX known as MCAS to address problems that caused it to misfire when one of the plane’s operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia in October. Investigators into the Ethiopian Airlines March 10 crash of the same plane model have said they see similarities between the two accidents. Tuesday, EASA executive director Patrick Ky, in a hearing before the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee said “I can guarantee to you that, on our side, we will not allow the aircraft to fly if we have not found an acceptable answer to all our questions whatever the FAA does.” <br/>
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European regulators to give Boeing 737 MAX fix extra scrutiny
Boeing’s efforts to return the grounded 737 MAX airliner to the sky after 2 fatal crashes face another hurdle after the head of EASA said it will give extra scrutiny to the plane before clearing it to fly. Boeing is working on a fix to a stall-prevention system on the MAX known as MCAS to address problems that caused it to misfire when one of the plane’s operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia in October. Investigators into the Ethiopian Airlines March 10 crash of the same plane model have said they see similarities between the two accidents. Tuesday, EASA executive director Patrick Ky, in a hearing before the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee said “I can guarantee to you that, on our side, we will not allow the aircraft to fly if we have not found an acceptable answer to all our questions whatever the FAA does.” <br/>
