4 days ago · On Saturday, United Airlines said it would temporarily ground all 79 of its Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to conduct inspections mandated by the FAA. Southwest Airlines and American Airlines told NPR Even before the 737 MAX took its first breath of fresh air when it was officially unveiled to the world on December 8, 2015, Boeing had already received 2856 total orders for the type. The MAX quickly became Boeing’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft. Two years later, on May 17, 2017, Boeing completed its first 737 MAX delivery to Malindo Air. Advertising. As Boeing and the FAA advanced the 737 MAX toward production, they limited the scrutiny and testing of the MCAS design. Then they agreed not to inform pilots about MCAS in The Seattle Times reports Boeing’s Safety Analysis of 737 MAX Flight Control had Crucial Flaws.. Boeing’s safety analysis of the flight control system called MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) understated the power of this system, the Seattle Times said, citing current and former engineers at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Summary of the FAA’s Review of the Boeing 737 MAX 5 Executive Summary Introduction This report provides a detailed technical account of the lessons learned since the two fatal accidents involving the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, as well as actions the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) took to ensure the airplane’s safe return to service. 1 day ago · Boeing's 737 Max is in the headlines again, MCAS problems, including a serious misunderstanding of the system by some pilots, played a role in the downing of two flights, in Indonesia in 2018 What We Found While FAA and Boeing followed the established certification process for the 737 MAX 8, we identified limitations in FAA's guidance and processes that impacted certification and led to a significant misunderstanding of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), the flight control software identified as contributing A U.S. House of Representatives committee report blames the Boeing 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people on the 'horrific culmination' of failed government oversight, design flaws and a lack of The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10 followed the unrecoverable nose-dive almost five months earlier of another jet of the same model, a Boeing 737 Max 8, in Indonesia Boeing's 737 MAX, the jetliner grounded for 20 months after two international crashes that killed 346 passengers and crew, resumed commercial flights Dec. 29. The aircraft was cleared to fly by mZf6ro.