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Old 23rd Oct 2019, 18:19
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seattle times oct 23 11 AM

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Profits slashed and costs rising, Boeing CEO holds firm: MAX to fly again by year end

Calling the crisis “a defining moment for Boeing” Muilenburg said “We have changed from this and will continue changing.”

He said Boeing has completed the software redesign of the flight control system — known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — that went wrong on both crash flights in Indonesia and Ethiopia and has conducted more than 800 flights with the updated software.

Boeing has hosted flight simulator sessions with more than 545 pilots representing airline customers and regulators to give them hands-on experience of the revised flight controls.

And Muilenburg said Boeing has made “steady progress” with a second software update that adds redundancy to all the flight control systems by routing them through both flight control computers instead of using only one of the computers on any given flight.

“In the upcoming days, Boeing will complete additional testing of this software update and conduct multiple simulator reviews,” Muilenburg said.

Last week, he added, Boeing performed a successful dry run of the certification flight test that the Federal Aviation Administration will conduct prior to granting final approval for the MAX to re-enter passenger service.

He said Boeing now assumes that it will get regulatory approval for the 737 MAX’s return to service by the end of the year and that it will gradually increase the 737 production rate next year.

However, Muilenburg spoke of a “phased approach,” with foreign regulators possibly granting approval later than the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the U.S.

“Timing may vary by jurisdiction,” he said.
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