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Boeing Details 737 Max Updates

The Max flight deck will now include an angle of attack disagree indicator and alert as standard equipment.

Torqued: Max Grounding Raises Questions about Int'l Cooperation

This investigation, like all others, requires analysis of facts and evidence rather than conjecture and lack of transparency.

Episode 19: Flight Deck Automation after Indonesia and Ethiopia | AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck Podcast

False activation of a protection mode… that a pilot can’t negate.

Boeing Set to Meet with Max Operators, Regulators

The U.S. manufacturer plans to relay details of updated Max flight control software and a training addendum.

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More Gray Charter Action Needed, Says BACA

BBC Wales has continued to investigate Sala crash, assisted by BACA, which wants more action from the CAA to deter illegal charter.

Transportation Department Committee to Probe Max Certification

The U.S. Department of Transportation has established a special committee to review the FAA’s process for certifying the 737 Max.

Garuda Seeks To Cancel Order for 49 Boeing 737 Max Jets

The Indonesian flag carrier cites a loss of confidence among passengers in the new Boeing narrowbody.

Ethiopia To Fast Track Report into 737 Max Crash

The Accident Investigation Bureau in Addis Ababa has agreed to “expedite” the preliminary report into Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

Accident Pilots Well Versed on Max AD, Says Ethiopian Airlines

The Ethiopian carrier refutes a report suggesting the pilots did not receive sufficient training.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Calls for IG Probe into Max

Department of Transportation head Elaine Chao orders a formal audit of the certification process for the Boeing 737 Max 8.

Boeing Touts Safety Culture Amid Reports of Max Investigations

CEO Muilenburg promises the release of a 737 Max software update “soon.”

Recorders Show 'Similarities' between 737 Max Crashes

French investigators have extracted virtually all the data from Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302’s FDR, CVR.

Episode 18: Into the Storm | AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck Podcast

“If either of us had said, ‘Let’s turn around and get out of here,’ we would have done it.”

France’s BEA To Analyze Recorders from Ill-fated 737 Max

Authorities transported the Ethiopian Airlines recorders from Addis Ababa to Paris for investigation on the request of the Ethiopian CAA.

U.S. Grounds Remaining Boeing Max 8s and 9s

The FAA stood as the last authority in the world to allow the model’s operation into and over its territory.

Canada Bans Boeing 737 Max, U.S. Remains Last Holdout

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration still sees “no basis” for grounding the 737 Max.

NTSB Head: Part 135 Needs Same Safety Tools as Airlines

NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the May 2017 crash of a Learjet makes the case that Part 135 operators need the same safety tools as the airlines have.

EASA Suspends Boeing 737 Max Operations In and To Europe

The European safety agency joins China and several other jurisdictions as groundings of the Max mount.

UK, Australian Authorities Among Latest To Ground 737 Max

U.S. FAA now faces pressure from lawmakers to ground the Max.

Atlas Air 3591 Pitched Down in Response to Elevator Deflection

In a March 12 update, the NTSB noted the Boeing 767-300 Freighter appears to have encountered turbulence before entering a steep dive into a coastal bay.

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