WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE — An international panel of air-safety regulators on Friday harshly criticized the US Federal Aviation Administration's review of a safety system on Boeing's 737 Max jet ...
Boeing has come under fire in recent months for failing to disclose the presence of the Maneuvering Characteristic Augmentation System or MCAS on its Boeing 737 Max airliners. In fact, the ...
Documents seen by the BBC confirm that the software update will limit the operation of the controversial MCAS system. That was the same system used by a Lion Air 737 Max which crashed off the ...
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triggering the automated system. MCAS was designed to compensate for the 737 Max having larger engines than previous 737 generations. The larger engines could cause the plane's nose to tip upward ...
Boeing 737 Accidents and the MAX Controversy It ... to issues with the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) ...
The aircraft manufacturer admitted to misleading regulators about the 737 Max’s MCAS flight control feature and the training needed to fly the aircraft equipped with the system. The MCAS was ...
The disaster caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft involved after ... to control the aircraft as the automated MCAS system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down ...
Boeing 737 Max: What went wrong ... the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
Pilots and test crew members from the US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing aim to kick off a certification test campaign for the 737 Max on ... software known as MCAS faulted in both ...
However, the same MCAS system was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 airliner off Indonesia which left 189 people dead. In the Indonesia crash, initial investigations found problems ...
Following the two fatal crashes, investigators blamed a computer system — called MCAS — that sent bad data to the plane’s horizontal stabilizer that controls the 737 Max’s movement up and ...