{"id":290799,"date":"2019-09-07T04:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T04:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290799"},"modified":"2019-09-07T05:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T05:07:34","slug":"boeing-suspends-testing-of-long-haul-777x-aircraft-takeoff-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-suspends-testing-of-long-haul-777x-aircraft-takeoff-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing suspends testing of long-haul 777X aircraft; takeoff postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has suspended testing on its new long-haul 777X aircraft, the company said Friday, a setback that comes as it battles to rebound from the crisis surrounding the 737 MAX. <\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;final load&#8221; tests are part of the aircraft certification process, overseen by inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and meant to subject the plane to &#8220;loads and stresses well beyond normal operational loads,&#8221; a Boeing spokesman told AFP in an email. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During final load testing on the 777X static test airplane, the team encountered an issue that required suspension of the test,&#8221; the spokesman said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The testing conditions were well beyond any load expected in commercial service. The event is under review and the team is working to understand root cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has suspended testing on its new long-haul 777X aircraft, the company said Friday, a setback that comes as it battles to rebound from the crisis surrounding the 737 MAX. The so-called &#8220;final load&#8221; tests are part of the aircraft certification process, overseen by inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and meant to subject the plane to &#8220;loads and stresses well beyond normal operational loads,&#8221; a Boeing spokesman told AFP in an email. &#8220;During final load testing on the 777X static test airplane, the team encountered an issue that required suspension of the test,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;The testing [&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-290799","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\/290799","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=290799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}