Two deadly crashes within a few months with the aircraft of type Boeing 737 MAX-8 has been the us department of transportation to go into the matter.
It will examine the american flymyndigheders approval of the MAX-planes, and that potentially has been an error, as the aircraft got a federal approval.
This writes The newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
the Investigation comes after two fatal aircraft accidents with the type of aircraft.
For a little over a week since the deaths of 157 people in a plane accident in Ethiopia. The crash happened shortly after the plane took off from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
the Aircraft was a Boeing 737 MAX-8. The same type which crashed 29. October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives. Also the crash happened shortly after departure.
Here it was a flight from the indonesian carrier Lion Air, which crashed into the sea.
Since then, there has been a focus on a particular software in Boeing’s MAX aircraft, and that is grounded with the MAX-planes in more than 30 countries.
Also not in the UNITED states is expected Boeing MAX aircraft to be allowed to come on the wings, before the company comes with a new software update. Boeing reported at the weekend, that the update is likely to be ready by the beginning of april.
Since 2017 is given the space to 737 MAX aircraft in us airspace, but already after the crash in October, a study is in progress.
the Focus is supposedly whether flymyndighederne used the correct design standards and analysis as the approved system to prevent the aircraft from stalling.
A spokesman from Boeing has in a statement told that the 737 was certified according to flymyndighedernes requirements and processes, which has been monitoring the approval of all new aircraft.
– FAA (flymyndighederne, red.) assessed the final configuration and operating parameters of the MCAS (one of the aircraft’s sensor systems, eds.) under MAX-approval, and they concluded that it lived up to all certification and regulatory requirements, the spokesman said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
the Transport ministry has refused to make up to the interview with the newspaper.
Studies of the black boxes from the planes that crashed for respectively one week and five months ago, will be made in France in collaboration with an ethiopian team.
It has found “apparent similarity” between the plane crash in Ethiopia, and the crash in Indonesia. A preliminary report of styrtene is expected to be completed within 30 days.