Boeing 737 Max sluit eerste serie testvluchten voor FAA hercertificering af (video)
30 June 2020
11:50
Boeing Co. and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration began a series of long-awaited flights to test whether the revamped 737 Max is safe following two deadly crashes, and investors cheered the rare good news for a planemaker mired in crisis.
A Max 7 flight-test aircraft concluded the first of three planned days of testing, landing at Boeing Field at about 2:16 p.m. local time Monday, with an FAA pilot sharing the controls with a crew member from the company. Flight enthusiasts around the world followed in real time as the aircraft flew over central Washington and performed maneuvers such as stalls, based on airspeed and altitude data on FlightRadar24.
The so-called certification flight is a milestone toward ending a grounding imposed worldwide in March 2019 after the two crashes of Boeing’s best-selling model killed 346 people. The FAA plans to put the jet, bristling with monitoring equipment, through a rigorous examination, said a person familiar with the matter, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the details.
‘Boeing 737 Max Jet Lands First FAA Test Flight in Seattle’
