Boeing tells some 737 Max customers to address possible electrical issue

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Source: Associated Press, via CBC

Boeing tells some 737 Max customers to address possible electrical issue

WestJet says it was notified about 'potential production issue' with 1 of its 737 Max aircraft

The Associated Press · Posted: Apr 09, 2021 12:10 PM ET | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago

Boeing has told 16 of its customers to address a possible electrical issue in a group of 737 Max aircraft before using them further.

An Air Canada spokesperson told CBC News via email Friday that its 737 Max aircraft "are not on the affected list."

However, WestJet told CBC News it had been "notified regarding a potential production issue with one of its 737 MAX aircraft and has removed the affected aircraft from service for subsequent inspection. Any maintenance, if necessary, will be completed before the aircraft returns to service."

The Calgary-based airline said its 13 other 737 Max aircraft "are not affected."

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Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boeing-tells-some-737-max-customers-to-address-possible-electrical-issue-1.5981259

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Hat tip, safari, at Joe.My.Goc.

https://www.joemygod.com/2021/04/texas-ag-sued-for-blocking-his-critics-on-twitter/#comment-5336170573

Boeing is telling some customers to stop flying the 737 Max aircraft due to a possible electrical issue. It doesn't say how many planes are affected. The Max was grounded in March 2019 after 346 people were killed in 2 separate crashes. Previous story:

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@CBCNews
: Boeing has told some customers to address a possible electrical issue in a group of 737 Max aircraft before using them further. The planes were recently returned to service after 2 fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019.

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[PSPS]

1. I'm surprised that they still have customers for their self-crashing model

[jmowreader]

2. It took some doing to get the Max to crash

Lion Air was caused primarily by bad maintenance. The accident plane went into the shop for a bad angle of attack sensor, so they installed a worse one.

Ethiopian was caused by bad pilotage. They flew the entire flight at takeoff power. When they turned off the trim motors (which also turns off MCAS) they couldn’t hand trim the plane because aerodynamic loads on the trim tabs were too high...so they turned it back on and it killed them. If the pilots would have asked themselves the simple question “why is this airplane making so much fucking noise?” then backed out of the gas when they realized the plane was still at full throttle, they would have had to wait for another day to kill themselves.

[Maxheader]

3. (yawn)

Possible elect. equipment ground fault. Remember working in

product development on the 777. Using cfrp in primary structure

for the first time , there were grounding issues. ...