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Boeing: tests on the new software continue

For Kjos (Norwegian Air) "new control system is infallible"

While today the preliminary report on the accident of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B-737 MAX 8 plane was presented (see AVIONEWS), yesterday the company CEO Dennis Muilenburg was on board of a B-737 MAX 7 -an aircraft smaller than the MAX 8- during a test flight of the new software of the automatic anti-stall system, where everything would have proceeded as planned. In the next few days Boeing will...

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AirlinesB-737 MAX aircraft: China Eastern Airlines presents the bill to Boeing

Damages asked for economic losses and for delay in future deliveries

Following the two incidents that occurred on October 29 in Indonesia (to Lion Air) and March 10 in Ethiopia (to Ethiopian Airlines) -in total 346 people died- due to a malfunction in the software of the... more

Civil aviationDelta. Bastian: "Interested in the possible future midsized aircraft of Boeing"

No comment on the possible investment in Alitalia

The Chief Executive Officer of Delta Air Lines Ed Bastian speaking at a press conference in Atlanta yesterday said that he was confident that Boeing will solve the B-737 MAX automatic anti-stalling system... more

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Aerospace company accused of hiding security issues

The double accident of the Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft for the US company does not only represent image and economic damage -given that orders in March were zero- but will also involve a series of legal... more

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