{"id":269085,"date":"2019-04-16T06:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269085"},"modified":"2019-04-16T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:14:34","slug":"boeing-says-737-max-8-is-not-suitable-for-challenging-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-says-737-max-8-is-not-suitable-for-challenging-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing says 737 Max 8 is &#8216;not suitable&#8217; for challenging airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before last month\u2019s crash of a flight that began in Ethiopia, Boeing Co. said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s \u201ccannot be used at what are referred to as \u2018high\/hot\u2019 airports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At an elevation of 7,657 feet &#8212; or more than a mile high &#8212; Addis Ababa\u2019s Bole International Airport falls into that category. High elevations require longer runways and faster speeds for takeoff. The Ethiopian airport\u2019s altitude hasn\u2019t been cited as a factor in the downing of Flight 302 and likely didn\u2019t cause the crash. But it could have exacerbated the situation because an airplane\u2019s performance degrades at higher altitudes, said a 737 pilot who flies into high-elevation airports such as Denver and agreed to speak on background since he\u2019s not authorized to talk with the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before last month\u2019s crash of a flight that began in Ethiopia, Boeing Co. said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s \u201ccannot be used at what are referred to as \u2018high\/hot\u2019 airports.&#8221; At an elevation of 7,657 feet &#8212; or more than a mile high &#8212; Addis Ababa\u2019s Bole International Airport falls into that category. High elevations require longer runways and faster speeds for takeoff. The Ethiopian airport\u2019s altitude hasn\u2019t been cited as a factor in the downing of Flight 302 and likely didn\u2019t cause the crash. But it could have exacerbated the situation because an airplane\u2019s performance degrades [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269085","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=269085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}