The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.

The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.

Bloomberg reported earlier this week that China had instructed airlines to stop taking delivery of Boeing jets.

  • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    They fixed the MCAS issue a while back. It now requires data from multiple sensors, is only able to activate once per flight, and has a dramatically reduced strength on that one activation.

    Mentour Pilot did great videos about the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines incidents that go into detail about that system and its flaws.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      It’s not about fixing that one defect.

      It’s about the degradation of their safety culture and engineering rigor to the point that they were just blithely ignoring regulatory requirements that are written in blood. Management overrode TONS of engineers, assemblers, and QC techs in the interest of shipping shit and making money. This also happened in the 787. This also happened in the starliner capsule. I’m sure it’s happening elsewhere. Boeing can no longer be trusted to reliably and safely build things - it’s that bad.