Boeing's grounded 737 Max 8 will undoubtedly be back in the air by December, FAA safety chief Ali Bahrami said on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg news agency.
It is not yet possible to give an exact date for when the Boeing 737 Max 8 may be ready to be given flight authorization by the US aviation authority FAA, but that this will have happened by the end of 2019 is a given, said safety chief Ali Bahrami at an aviation safety conference in Cologne on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.
The plane model, which entered service in 2017, was involved in two accidents in a short period of time that claimed nearly 350 lives in October 2018 and March 2019. Both Boeing and the FAA have since been heavily criticized for their work on safety certifications of the hidden autopilot system, which is suspected of being behind the pilots' failure to straighten the plane's nose after a sensor on the fuselage was damaged and began providing the system with incorrect data.
Ali Bahrami agreed in his speech that the FAA "is under heavy pressure" but assured that the Max 8 will not be given permission to enter service until the authority finds that the model is safe.
”There is no timetable,” he said.
Regardless of when the US green light comes, global relief for the model will likely take longer. Among other things, the EU aviation authority will conduct an independent assessment of the adjustments made to the model, something that was announced at the end of May by the FAA's European counterpart.
Source:nyhetsbyråndirekt.se
