{"id":352660,"date":"2020-05-22T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352660"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T06:24:57","slug":"no-test-flight-for-boeing-737-max-before-june-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-test-flight-for-boeing-737-max-before-june-report\/","title":{"rendered":"No test flight for Boeing 737 MAX before June: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key test flight for the Boeing 737 MAX, a major hurdle before the grounded plane is cleared to fly again, will not take place before June, sources told AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic is partly to blame for the delay. Boeing had previously targeted mid-2020 to win approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration for the aircraft that has been out of service since March 2019 following two crashes that killed 346 people. <\/p>\n<p>One source told AFP that no test flight would take place before June, while second source said it likely would be pushed beyond June and no date had been set. <\/p>\n<p>European and Canadian regulators, who have been planning to join their US counterparts for the flight, have been unable to schedule a trip because of social distance policies, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key test flight for the Boeing 737 MAX, a major hurdle before the grounded plane is cleared to fly again, will not take place before June, sources told AFP on Thursday. The coronavirus pandemic is partly to blame for the delay. Boeing had previously targeted mid-2020 to win approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration for the aircraft that has been out of service since March 2019 following two crashes that killed 346 people. One source told AFP that no test flight would take place before June, while second source said it likely would be pushed beyond June and [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352660","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=352660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}