Boeing completes 737 Max test flights
US, Europe, Canada, Brazil may not okay flights till next year: industry experts
Chicago
THIS past week, Boeing completed test flights of its troubled 737 Max airplane to demonstrate that it can fly safely with new flight control software. The Max was grounded in March 2019 after two fatal crashes - in Indonesia and Ethiopia - that killed 346 people.
Even as the company began testing the planes for recertification, a federal inspector general's report said that Boeing had kept information from federal regulators about the flawed computer system that brought down the two jets during the plane's initial approval process.
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