Boeing employees report new problem on 737 MAX

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could consider a new approach in its research on the Boeing 737 MAX line, which has organized in less than five months two tragic incidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Four former and current Boeing employees called the FAA hotline to file complaints about the 737 MAX aircraft after the Ethiopian Minister of Transport, Dagmawit Moges, released the preliminary report on the incident. flight occurred this month. 302 of Ethiopian Airlines, which crashed a few minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing 157 people.

It would appear that employee complaints focus on Aircraft Angle of Attack sensor issues, equipment that measures the angle of the aircraft in the air and its Automatic Stabilization System (MCAS) for its acronym in English. ).

However, one of the complaints mentioned a problem that was not reported before and related to a "strange object" that damages the angle of attack sensor wiring, according to a source close to the subject.

In early April, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg admitted that the company's aircraft software was responsible for 737 MAX 8 aircraft accidents in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Muilenburg said that apparently, both on Ethiopian flights and on Indonesian flights, which had been injured in March and October, the MCAS had been activated in response to "wrong" information about the angle of attack. Attack, which had caused fatal accidents.

At the end of March, the company presented the latest MCAS stabilization system update for its Model 737 MAX aircraft. Boeing claims to have developed the necessary modifications to provide "extra layers" of protection in the event that the device failover sensors provide erroneous data. In addition, the new version allows pilots to disable the program to operate ships manually in case of problems.

* In March, Donald Trump announced that the United States suspended all flights of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 until further notice.

* Several countries of the European Union and Latin America, as well as China, South Korea, Australia, Turkey and India, among others, have left ashore and / or have closed their airspace against aircraft of this Boeing model.

* All this resulted in a significant drop in the stock market value of the aeronautical company, which decided to suspend deliveries of its 737 MAX.

RT.