{"id":269794,"date":"2019-04-20T05:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269794"},"modified":"2019-04-20T05:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:11:52","slug":"six-months-on-why-is-the-boeing-737-max-software-update-taking-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/six-months-on-why-is-the-boeing-737-max-software-update-taking-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Six months on, why is the Boeing 737 Max software update taking so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after a Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 jet plunged into Indonesia\u2019s Java Sea last October, company officials said they were moving quickly to update plane software suspected in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Six months and a second Max 8 disaster later, Boeing has yet to submit its fix to regulators. Last week, pilots and its airline customers left a Federal Aviation Administration meeting with no idea when the grounded model would fly again. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken off our watches and put the calendars in the drawer,\u201d American Airlines pilot Dennis Tajer said after the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s taking so long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after a Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 jet plunged into Indonesia\u2019s Java Sea last October, company officials said they were moving quickly to update plane software suspected in the crash. Six months and a second Max 8 disaster later, Boeing has yet to submit its fix to regulators. Last week, pilots and its airline customers left a Federal Aviation Administration meeting with no idea when the grounded model would fly again. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken off our watches and put the calendars in the drawer,\u201d American Airlines pilot Dennis Tajer said after the meeting. What\u2019s taking so long?<\/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-269794","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\/269794","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=269794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}