Boeing is reportedly in the process of issuing a safety warning to operators of the new 737 Max model – the same type that recently crashed off the coast of Indonesia, Bloomberg News reports.
The warning from Boeing is intended to alert airlines to the risk of erroneous readings from a monitoring system, which could cause the aircraft to make abrupt dives, according to an anonymous source. The information is intended to alert pilots and urge them to follow a specific procedure to deal with the problem.
According to Bloomberg's source, under certain circumstances, when the pilot is flying manually, the 737 Max model automatically tries to lower the aircraft's nose to avoid so-called overshooting, where lift is lost.
A Boeing 737 Max operated by Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, killing 189 people. An Indonesian committee is expected to present its findings in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Boeing has delivered 219 of the 737 Max aircraft to date and has over 4,500 orders for the model. Southwest Airlines, Air Canada and American Airlines are the largest customers, but Norwegian also has twelve of these aircraft.
Source:di.se-nyhetsbyråndirekt
