{"id":263648,"date":"2019-03-12T06:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263648"},"modified":"2019-03-12T06:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:03:48","slug":"us-to-mandate-design-changes-on-boeing-737-max-8-after-crashes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-to-mandate-design-changes-on-boeing-737-max-8-after-crashes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US to mandate design changes on Boeing 737 MAX 8 after crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will mandate that Boeing Co implement design changes by April that have been in the works for months for the 737 MAX 8 fleet after a fatal crash in October but said the plane was airworthy and did not need to be grounded after a second crash on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 aboard and raising questions about the safety of the new variant of the industry workhorse, one of which also crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 people.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s announcement late Monday that it will deploy a software upgrade across the 737 MAX 8 fleet \u201cin the coming weeks\u201d as pressure mounted. Two US senators called the fleet&#8217;s immediate grounding and a rising number of airlines said they would voluntarily ground their fleets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will mandate that Boeing Co implement design changes by April that have been in the works for months for the 737 MAX 8 fleet after a fatal crash in October but said the plane was airworthy and did not need to be grounded after a second crash on Sunday. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 aboard and raising questions about the safety of the new variant of the industry workhorse, one of which also crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 people. Boeing confirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}