The US House of Representatives has unanimously approved new legislation that will reform the Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft certification process. The legislative reform has come as a direct result of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters, in which 346 people were killed across two fatal crashes on the aircraft. Under the new House bill, an expert
The US Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly in the final stages of reviewing the proposed safety changes to Boeing’s embattled 737 MAX, which could see the plane un-grounded as soon as 18 November. FAA chief administrator Steve Dickson reportedly informed Reuters that the review process is expected to be completed within the “coming days”, and
Canadian planemaker is currently being investigated by the UK Serious Fraud Office over suspected bribery and corruption involved in a deal made with Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda Indonesia nearly a decade ago. According to the Financial Times, the probe is being made in relation to Bombardier’s sale of six regional CRJ1000 aircraft to Garuda in 2011.
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, aviation law expert Ronnie Gipson jnr explains the aircraft certification process, how it went drastically wrong in the case of the Boeing 737 MAX, and what needs to change in the future. After being grounded in March 2019 following two fatal crashes, the Boeing 737 MAX is expected to
A group made up of 11 US states and Washington, DC, has urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to further strengthen the first-ever proposed standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in the US. The environmental protection body released its proposed emission rules for aircraft in July, which have been largely criticised as having
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released its draft report on revised training procedures for pilots of the embattled Boeing 737 MAX, another key milestone in the process of seeing the aircraft return to the skies. The FAA has said that its draft Standardisation Board Report would now be open for public comment until
