{"id":266584,"date":"2019-03-27T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=266584"},"modified":"2019-03-27T06:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:41:43","slug":"boeing-fix-for-737-max-will-prevent-repeated-activation-of-anti-stall-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-fix-for-737-max-will-prevent-repeated-activation-of-anti-stall-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing fix for 737 MAX will prevent repeated activation of anti-stall system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: A Boeing Co software fix for the grounded 737 MAX will prevent repeated operation of an anti-stall system at the centre of safety concerns and deactivate it altogether if two sensors disagree widely, two people familiar with pilot briefings said.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-stall system &#8211; known as MCAS, or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System &#8211; has been pinpointed by investigators probing October&#8217;s fatal Lion Air crash and faces new scrutiny in the wake of another fatal accident in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Those accidents, which killed nearly 350 people, triggered the worldwide grounding of Boeing&#8217;s flagship 737 MAX aircraft and ignited a debate over the proper balance between man and machine in piloting the latest version of the 50-year-old 737.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: A Boeing Co software fix for the grounded 737 MAX will prevent repeated operation of an anti-stall system at the centre of safety concerns and deactivate it altogether if two sensors disagree widely, two people familiar with pilot briefings said. The anti-stall system &#8211; known as MCAS, or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System &#8211; has been pinpointed by investigators probing October&#8217;s fatal Lion Air crash and faces new scrutiny in the wake of another fatal accident in Ethiopia. Those accidents, which killed nearly 350 people, triggered the worldwide grounding of Boeing&#8217;s flagship 737 MAX aircraft and ignited a debate over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-266584","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\/266584","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}