Scheduled for the end of 2021, the certification of the C919, China's first medium-haul aircraft, has been postponed again.
Comac, its manufacturer, is continuing the test flights.
On January 2, he justified the delay by the
“double impact”
of the health crisis and of
the “external environment”.
The “zero Covid” policy has had consequences, with
“at least one test site affected”.
But the pandemic does not explain everything.
Far from there.
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It has been almost five years since the first flight of the C919 in May 2017 that Comac has been working on its certification. This step would pave the way for the entry into service of this 168 to 190 seat aircraft by China Eastern Airline. It would mark an important step in China's long march to interfere in the global Airbus-Boeing duopoly.
The slowness of the process speaks volumes about the lack of maturity and Chinese experience, but also about the level of requirement of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the local aviation safety authority, for the certification ...
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