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Since the two successive accidents seven months ago, the Boeing 737 MAX has been grounded and its future seems more uncertain than ever. Exchanges between pilots suggest that the technical concerns of the aircraft were known to Boeing from the simulator tests.
Since the successive accidents in Asia and Addis Ababa, having made 346 deaths in all, Boeing is waiting for permission from the FAA, the US Federal Aviation Agency, to redo its planes. Currently, judicial investigations and the Department of Transport are in progress, which delays its re-circulation and increases the bill.
Difficulties for pilots in simulator
It's a new twist in the interminable drama that agitates Boeing and his 737 MAX. This time it's a conversation between two pilots from the company. In their exchanges, dating from 2016, before the commercialization of the aircraft, the pilots declare that the MCAS, the system that prevents the 737 MAX from landing and diving, complicates the piloting simulator.
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Boeing and the FAA were informed of the exchanges between the two test pilots. In 2017, the regulator issues the flight certification for the 737 MAX, Boeing puts it on the market in 2017. Some 18 months later occur two fatal accidents successively and very quickly the MCAS is implicated. Today, experts are questioning the porosity between the manufacturer and the American regulator , who now send the ball. Several investigations are in progress.
Degraded rating by Standard & Poor's
In this opaque climate, Boeing sees the authorization for its 737 MAX to fly away from month to month . The more time passes the more the bill gets heavier. For now, it is $ 8.4 billion, but according to Bank of America, it could exceed $ 17 billion. The rating agency Standard & Poor's has just degraded Boeing's rating from stable to negative.