{"id":264235,"date":"2019-03-14T06:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264235"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:54:29","slug":"how-737-max-8-boeings-workhorse-flew-into-safety-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-737-max-8-boeings-workhorse-flew-into-safety-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"How 737 Max 8, Boeing&#8217;s workhorse, flew into safety troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 on Sunday killing all 157 on board is the second time in five months that the aircraft has been involved in an accident. In October, a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, killing all 189 people on board. Mint analyses the issues regarding the Boeing workhorse.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Boeing 737 Max 8?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a single-aisle, narrow-body plane with a maximum of 210 seats, three on each side, and has a range of 6,570km. The aircraft has a length of 39.52m and a wingspan of 35.9m. Its LEAP-1B engine is supplied by CFM International Inc., a joint venture of GE Aviation and Safran Aircraft Engines SAS. The plane is used on transatlantic and transcontinental routes as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 Max 8, The Wall Street Journal reports quoting analysts, represents about two-thirds of Boeing\u2019s future deliveries and about 40% of its profit. The firm now makes 52 units of the 737 every month and plans to take that up to 57 by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 on Sunday killing all 157 on board is the second time in five months that the aircraft has been involved in an accident. In October, a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, killing all 189 people on board. Mint analyses the issues regarding the Boeing workhorse. What is the Boeing 737 Max 8? It\u2019s a single-aisle, narrow-body plane with a maximum of 210 seats, three on each side, and has a range of 6,570km. The aircraft has a length of 39.52m and a wingspan of 35.9m. Its LEAP-1B engine is supplied [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264235","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=264235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}