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A statement to the WOFA from the manufacturer of the 737 MAX We continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian Airlines 302. We are truly sorry. The memory of these tragedies will continue to drive us to do
How the MAX is already changing the regulatory system Making commercial aircraft safe to fly should be a boring job, and one that people never hear about outside the pages of magazines like this one. Safety regulation should be discussed in tedious terms: harmonised, multilateral, international, predictable. Trusted, consensus-based agreements are its watchword. Beyond the
The 737 MAX forces Boeing and other manufacturers to rethink their future When Boeing conceived of the 737 MAX, it returned once more to the already highly profitable 737 family airframe for one further generation, in order to fund not only its successor the FSA (a future shorthaul aircraft) but other future aircraft like the
The financial cost to Boening, airlines and the industry We may never know just how much the 737 MAX crisis may cost Boeing. After the grounding of the aircraft following two crashes that claimed 346 lives in October 2018 and in April 2019, the prospect of a financial reckoning for the MAX is complex and
Getting the Boeing 737 MAX back in the air is a task that is nothing short of monumental. Any aircraft is complex to certify, but with the scrutiny of the entire world — and the entire world’s aviation safety regulators — on the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration as lead certifying authority, the stakes are
The final report on the Lion Air 610 crash of 29 October 2018 makes for sobering reading. The crew on the previous flight, Lion Air 43, managed to overcome erroneous MCAS activation and land safely after cutting off the automatic trimming system. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Subscribe to Australian Aviation
