{"id":362282,"date":"2020-07-10T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362282"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T07:25:13","slug":"boeings-737-max-is-being-readied-for-a-comeback-what-travelers-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-737-max-is-being-readied-for-a-comeback-what-travelers-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 737 Max is being readied for a comeback. What travelers need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Boeing completed test flights of its troubled 737 Max airplane to demonstrate that it can fly safely with new flight control software. The Max was grounded in March 2019 after a pair of fatal crashes \u2014 in Indonesia and Ethiopia \u2014 that killed 346 people.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the company began testing the planes for recertification, a federal inspector general\u2019s report said that Boeing had kept information from federal regulators about the flawed computer system that brought down the two jets during the plane\u2019s initial approval process.<\/p>\n<p>The Max is the most recent model of Boeing\u2019s 737, a type of aircraft with many variants over the decades. More than 10,000 737s have been built. The Max was released in 2017 in four lengths to accommodate up to 230 seats. The Max has larger, more fuel-efficient engines than the older models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Boeing completed test flights of its troubled 737 Max airplane to demonstrate that it can fly safely with new flight control software. The Max was grounded in March 2019 after a pair of fatal crashes \u2014 in Indonesia and Ethiopia \u2014 that killed 346 people. Even as the company began testing the planes for recertification, a federal inspector general\u2019s report said that Boeing had kept information from federal regulators about the flawed computer system that brought down the two jets during the plane\u2019s initial approval process. The Max is the most recent model of Boeing\u2019s 737, a [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362282","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=362282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}