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Boeing has scrapped its full-year earnings forecast for calendar 2019 due to the impact of the global grounding of its 737 MAX program.
Boeing says it has invited about 200 aviation professionals to its Renton facility in Washington State for a technical briefing due to be held on Wednesday, March 27.
Revelations about the Boeing 737MAX have kept coming while investigators work out what caused two crashes and regulators probe its certification process.
Boeing has embedded its own staff at companies in its supply chain to support efforts to increase the production rate of the 737 to 57 aircraft a month.
As a result of continuing investigations into last week's crash of Lion Air flight 610, the US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) to operators of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft calling on them to address procedures in the event of pilots receiving erroneous angle of attack sensor information.
With the crash of a brand-new Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX off the coast of Jakarta on Monday, armchair experts have rushed to judgement in criticising this brand new aircraft type. So for today's Throwback Thursday article from the Australian Aviation archives, we revisit this April 2016 feature that delves into the comprehensive development history of the 737 MAX program.
