Boeing 737 MAX pilots shut down engine in mid-flight due to mechanical issues

Boeing’s flagship flight 2555 arrived “safely and without incident” at Newark Airport and made its way unassisted to the scheduled gate, a company spokesperson said.

The Boeing 737 MAXs were paralyzed for nearly two years after two fatal crashes and their operation is being monitored by the FAA after another flight in which a plane lost part of its fuselage while flying over the city of Denver.

The problem of Flight 2555 It was related to the pressure in the engine oil or a volume gauge, the spokesperson said.

MCAS pilot assistance software, challenged by the Lion Air 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines crashes in 2019, in which hundreds of people were killed, this time he was not involved, insured.

The plane, coming from Miami, landed in New York “after pilots reported turning off one of the engines in flight,” said the US aviation oversight agency, the FAA, which plans to investigate the incident.

American Airlines was the first company to reintegrate the 737 MAX into its flight program at the end of December 2020, a few weeks after the authorization granted by the American authorities.

The FAA then demanded several modifications to the aircraft, in particular in the MCAS software, as well as new pilot training.

Agency manager Steve Dickson then warned that it was “inevitable” that at some point mechanical problems would arise and a 737 MAX would have to return to the airport during the flight, as it was. is often the case with all model airplanes. .

Boeing, which has established an operations center that monitors all 737 MAX flights in real time, only said it was “aware” of the incident.