Boeing has found a new problem with changes it is making to software on the 737 Max, but the company says the issue will not further delay the grounded plane\u2019s return to flight. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Stephen Dickson, discussed the issue Thursday with reporters in London. Dickson indicated that the FAA could conduct a certification flight for the Max in the next few weeks. That flight will be a key milestone in Boeing\u2019s bid to get FAA recertification of the plane this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we get past the certification flight, and the data that comes out of the certification flight, the steps from there on \u2026 are more predictable, in terms of they\u2019re just fewer variables,\u201d Dickson said. \u201cBut we\u2019ve got to get to those points before we\u2019re willing to predict anything.\u201d Shares of Boeing were up about 4% in afternoon trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boeing has found a new problem with changes it is making to software on the 737 Max, but the company says the issue will not further delay the grounded plane\u2019s return to flight. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Stephen Dickson, discussed the issue Thursday with reporters in London. Dickson indicated that the FAA could conduct a certification flight for the Max in the next few weeks. That flight will be a key milestone in Boeing\u2019s bid to get FAA recertification of the plane this summer. \u201cOnce we get past the certification flight, and the data that comes out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336538","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}