Aerospace
Boeing certification for the B737 max 7,10 could be delayed once more until 2023.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informed Boeing (BA.N) that it has not finished the essential work required to certify the 737 MAX 7 by December.
According to a letter from the FAA seen by Reuters, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informed Boeing (BA.N) that it has not finished the essential work required to certify the 737 MAX 7 by December.
Boeing has until December to obtain regulatory permission for both the MAX 10, which is slightly larger than the 737 MAXs currently in operation and the MAX 7, which is a smaller variation. Boeing needs to comply with new current cockpit-alerting rules that would considerably slow down the planes’ entry into service unless it receives a delay from Congress.
Wicker suggested last week that Boeing be given until September 2024 to obtain clearance for the two new types. He intends to include the proposal in a yearly defense bill. But it’s uncertain whether Congress would be open to approving the plan.
After two 737 MAX crashes in which 346 people died and the best-selling aircraft was grounded for 20 months, certification reform legislation was passed in 2020. This legislation includes the additional cockpit alerting criteria.
