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Tui Airways had nine Boeing 737 Max aircraft scheduled to be based in the UK this year


B737 Max unlikely to fly again until next year


Grounded Boeing aircraft awaits date for a certification flight. Ian Taylor reports Te Max fleet has been grounded


Te grounded Boeing 737 Max will not return to airline schedules until next year despite Boeing’s assertion last week that it is on course to return by December. Boeing chief executive Dennis


Muilenburg was due to testify before a US Congressional commitee this week having admited in a leter to the commitee: “We made mistakes and got things wrong.” Te commitee is expected to


recommend toughening US aircraſt certification aſter commitee chairman Peter DeFazio said: “Complacency set in on the manufacturers’ side and the regulator’s side.”


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since mid-March aſter two disasters in five months killed 346 passengers and crew. An automated flight control system (MCAS) designed to prevent stalling has been implicated in both crashes, its faults exacerbated by inadequate information for pilots. Boeing insisted last week it expects


the Max’s return to be signed off by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before the end of the year. However, the FAA has yet to schedule a certification flight, with a review following the flight expected to take a month. Only when the FAA certifies the Max as airworthy will the MCAS


soſtware fix and pilot training be rolled out. It is expected to take at least six


weeks from certification to get the first of the 385 grounded aircraſt into service, with each having to undergo a series of tests. However, aviation investors have


raised concerns that certification could slip into next year. Relations between the FAA and


Boeing were soured by the disclosure on October 18 of previously unreleased text messages from 2016


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