Boeing has recommended to 16 customers, that they address a potential electrical issue in a specific group of B737 MAX airplanes prior to further operations.
The recommendation is being made to allow for verification that a sufficient ground path exists for a component of the electrical power system.
We are working closely with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on this production issue.
We are also informing our customers of specific tail numbers affected and we will provide direction on appropriate corrective actions.
Boeing has been specifically cautious about the Max aircrafts, which the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the return to service of the 737 MAX in early December, following a 20-month grounded that was triggered by twin fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed 347 onboard.
At an earlier occasion, which was highlighted last year, Boeing engineers missed a particular Boeing’s 737 MAX wiring design that didn’t meet federal aviation regulations for safe wire separation. And interestingly, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) failed to detect Boeing’s miss.
Theoretically, the wiring vulnerability creates potential for an electrical short to move the jet’s horizontal tail uncommanded by the pilot, which could be catastrophic. If that were to happen, it could lead to a flight control emergency.
Disclosure of wiring issues in Certain B737 max batches induced a fall of shares , not only for Boeing , but also for the airlines !
Delta witnessed a fall of 1% while Southwest Airlines and American Airlines were both down just short of that.
Boeing itself slipped by 1.7% after the disclosure earlier in the day.
After the Boeing reccomendations earlier today, American Airlines had removed 17 Boeing B737 Max aircrafts from its schedule while Southwest taken down 30.
In a separate development, Turkey’s national flag carrier Turkish Airlines is about to put two of its Boeing 737 Max airplanes back into service after it was granted approval by the country’s civil aviation authority, sources said Friday.
But , It was not immediately clear if Turkish Airlines’ B737 Max planes were impacted by the announced wiring issue.
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