The United States plans to carry out the test flight of the Boeing 737 in "a few weeks ", a decisive step in the return to service of this plane grounded for almost a year, said Thursday in London Steve Dickson, the head of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). Boeing has nevertheless detected a new problem related to the MCAS anti-stall system, implicated in the two accidents, we learned from concordant sources. This problem, which concerns the alarm supposed to light up in the event of a malfunction of the MCAS, does not affect the timetable for bringing the aircraft back into service, Boeing assured in an email to AFP. In mid-January, the aircraft manufacturer announced that the MAX could a priori fly in mid-2020.
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Responding to questions from journalists in London, Steve Dickson, the head of the FAA, the main airline regulator in the United States, said he hoped the 737 MAX certification flight would take place in "a few weeks ". The FAA completed " several weeks ago " its audit of changes made by Boeing to the MCAS software, a regulatory source told AFP. She concluded that adjustments would be necessary, but these would not be a priori " significant ", said the same source. Boeing has yet to come up with a solution to resolve a problem with the aircraft's electrical wiring. On Wall Street, the title Boeing rose by more than 2% following this information. Two Boeing 737 Max crashes killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
