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Leeham News and Analysis
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 4. Propulsive efficiency April 19, 2024
- Boeing unlikely to meet FAA’s 90-day deadline for new safety program April 18, 2024
- Focus on quality not slowing innovation, says GKN April 18, 2024
- Boeing defends 787, 777 against whistleblower charges April 17, 2024
- Dissecting Boeing CEO’s statement next new airplane will cost $50bn April 15, 2024
NTSB issues critique of Ethiopia’s final report of Boeing 737 MAX 2019 crash
By Scott Hamilton Dec. 27, 2022, © Leeham News: The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today issued a critique of the newly released final investigation report of the Ethiopian government of the March 10, 2019, crash of… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: 737 MAX ungrounding, ANAC’s and EASA’s decisions
November 27, 2020, ©. Leeham News: After the lifting on the grounding order by the FAA, ANAC (Brazils regulator) followed in the week, and EASA issued its plans for public comment. What are the differences in the ungrounding… Read More
Boeing 737 MAX changes beyond MCAS
By Bjorn Fehrm November 24, 2020, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we went through the core MCAS changes the FAA demanded from Boeing to lift the grounding of the 737 MAX 8 and 9. As the investigation into… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: 737 MAX ungrounding, the technical background
November 20, 2020, ©. Leeham News: This week’s big news is the lifting of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX. I wrote about the changes made to the MAX Wednesday and why I believe it’s safe. Let’s use… Read More
FAA recertifies Boeing 737 MAX
Continuing coverage in next post By Bjorn Fehrm November 18, 2020, ©. Leeham News: The FAA has declared the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 safe to fly after a 20 months grounding. On March 10, 2019, the… Read More
Why is the 737 MAX safe now when it wasn’t before?
Subscription Required Now open to all readers. By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction September 14, 2020, © Leeham News: The FAA and EASA Safety of Flight authorities have examined and test flown the changes Boeing has done to the 737… Read More
FAA: No MAX certification until 2020; analysis forecast 15 more crashes if MCAS not fixed
Dec. 11, 2019, © Leeham News: A new round of Congressional Hearings about the Boeing 737 MAX got underway today. Before the hearing began at the House Transportation Committee, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson appeared on CNBC today. Among… Read More
FAA takes first steps for re-certification of the MAX
December 6, 2019, ©. Leeham News: The FAA issued a draft of the updated Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 on its website yesterday. It’s there to be commented on by… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Analysing the Lion Air JT610 crash, Part 5.
November 29, 2019, ©. Leeham News: We continue the series about the Lion Air JT610 crash by now analyzing the final part of the flight. We try to understand what changed when the First Officer took over the… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Analysing the Lion Air JT610 crash, Part 4.
November 22, 2019, ©. Leeham News: We continue the series on analyzing the Lion Air JT610 crash by analyzing MCAS in more depth before we go to the final part of the flight. We look at what was… Read More