China News Service, April 23. According to Reuters, on April 22, local time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated that a total of 106 Boeing 737MAX airliners worldwide were grounded due to electrical failures.
FAA said that Boeing is still looking for a solution.
Data map: Boeing 737 MAX passenger plane.
Boeing previously disclosed problems with the power system and recommended that these passenger planes be temporarily suspended.
Reports at the time stated that the problem involved electrical grounding inside the backup power control system.
However, the FAA said on the 22nd that subsequent analysis and testing showed that the problem may also involve other systems, which may affect the backup power control unit, circuit breaker panel and main dashboard.
This means that the aircraft was grounded again less than half a year after it went around.
In October 2018 and March 2019, Indonesian Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX series passenger planes respectively suffered air crashes, killing a total of 346 people.
Two air crashes caused the aircraft to be grounded globally since March 2019.
On November 18, 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration announced the lifting of the grounding order for Boeing 737 MAX aircraft; on December 29, 2020, a Boeing 737 MAX airliner of American Airlines flew from Miami to New York and became the aircraft The first flight after the type was allowed to go around.