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Congress rejects including an exemption to defense bill for two new 737 MAX variants
WASHINGTON — Late on Tuesday, U.S. legislators decided against adding a delay to an annual defense bill that would impose a higher safety level for contemporary cockpit alerts on two new Boeing 737 MAX variants. (www.airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I've read the article twice, and I'm still not sure whether the flying public should feel safer. Surely it's not too much to ask the writer to untangle the negatives, so we can understand who proposed the legislation, who it benifits, why it was opposed, and on what grounds.
Good!
Bad, in this context these requirements would arguably reduce safety. Now Boeing will have likely cancel the variants just because their development just happens to span an arbitrary line in time.
As a 737 Captain my view is that bringing the 737 into the modern era will increase safety, not decrease it. The Max is just beginning its useful life. I don't know how many Boeing has delivered but thousands more are on order. I'd rather have modern EICAS in those new jets that the 1960s relic of an alerting system that we have now. In a few years, the Max will be the majority variant of the 737 and if we begin now we would have a majority EICAS fleet in no time. And for people who argue against a mixed fleet, I would go so far as to prefer this in the new jets and require it to be retrofitted to the existing Max 9s.
I'm with you on this. The extra training also would not take that long to complete.
Seems The European regulators might just force Boeing to retrofit the systems even if FAA doesn't....
This story isn't over yet......
This story isn't over yet......