Dallas:
The Boeing 737 MAX will take a further important step in its comeback to industrial travel on Wednesday with an American Airlines test flight for news media.
After becoming grounded for 20 months following two deadly crashes, US air security officials in mid-November cleared the MAX to return to service following alterations to the plane and pilot coaching protocols.
American Airlines plans an initial industrial flight on December 29.
The test flight Wednesday among American’s headquarters in Dallas and its upkeep center in Tulsa, is intended to bolster public self-assurance in the jet.
The MAX had been a money cow for Boeing prior to the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes that with each other claimed 346 lives. But these calamities plunged the aerospace giant into a crisis that was worsened by the coronavirus and its devastating effect on industrial air travel.
Steve Dickson, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, described the course of action for recertifying the jet as exhaustive. Dickson himself piloted a test flight and mentioned final month he was “100 percent comfortable” with obtaining his loved ones fly in the jet.
A principal lead to of the two crashes was identified as a faulty flight handling program that was supposed to preserve the plane from stalling as it ascended but rather forced the nose of the plane downward. The FAA expected Boeing to upgrade this program to address the flaw.
Families of victims of the crashes dismissed the American Airlines flight as a “media stunt,” according to Clifford Law Offices, which is representing the households in litigation against Boeing.
“The promotional flight is arranged by the American Airlines marketing team simply because the company made the mistake of buying more MAX aircraft than almost any other airline,” mentioned Michael Stumo, whose daughter died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.
“Passengers should avoid this aircraft because others are safer.”
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