Boeing is playing big.
Because the 737 Max must perform a two-hour test flight this Wednesday, with a “captain” unlike any other.
It is indeed Steve Dickson, the boss of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) who sits in the cockpit of the aircraft.
The ex-pilot of the US Air Force who was then captain of Delta Airlines, keeps a promise made last November, during a visit to Renton, industrial HQ of the 737 program since its launch in the 1960s .
"I will not give the green light to this plane until I have piloted it myself and that I am convinced that I can make my own family travel there without thinking about it"
, he declared then.
Questioning of MCAS, the anti-stall system
The 737 Max has deserted the sky for a little over eighteen months.
It was banned from flying around the world after two deadly crashes in October 2018 and March 2019. Since then, worrying revelations have followed one another in the public square.
In a damning report published in mid-September, the transport committee
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