{"id":1665613,"date":"2022-09-30T01:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665613"},"modified":"2022-09-30T01:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:50:48","slug":"faa-says-boeing-has-not-completed-work-needed-for-737-max-7-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faa-says-boeing-has-not-completed-work-needed-for-737-max-7-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA says Boeing has not completed work needed for 737 MAX 7 approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffaa-says-boeing-has-not-completed-work-needed-for-737-max-7-approval%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By David Shepardson<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Boeing it has not completed key work needed in order to certify the 737 MAX 7 by December, according to a letter from the FAA seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Lirio Liu, the FAA\u2019s executive director of aviation safety, told Boeing in the Sept. 19 letter that the agency had concerns about the planemaker\u2019s submissions and sought discussion \u201cabout realistic timeframes for receiving the remaining documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FAA told Boeing to turn in all remaining System Safety Assessments (SSAs) by mid-September \u201cif the company intends to meet its project plan of completing certification work (and receiving FAA approval for this airplane) by December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liu said as of Sept. 15, \u201cjust under 10% of the SSAs have been accepted by the FAA and another 70% of these documents are in various stages of review and revision.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Boeing faces a December deadline to win approval from the FAA of the 737 MAX 7 and 10 variants, or it must meet new modern cockpit-alerting requirements that could significantly delay approvals. <\/p>\n<p>Congress could opt to waive the requirements that were adopted as part of a certification reform bill passed after two fatal 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people and led to the best-selling plane\u2019s 20-month grounding.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA added in the that \u201cmost concerning, however, is that Boeing has yet to provide an initial submittal for six of the <\/p>\n<p>outstanding SSAs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said it expects \u201cmany of these documents will take significant time to review due to their complexity and bearing on the overall safety of the new aircraft.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork must be completed deliberately and in such a way that an arbitrary calendar date does not become the driving factor,\u201d Liu wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing said it is \u201cdiscussing with policymakers the time needed to complete these certifications, following established processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not seeking to rush this process, and believe safety is best served by allowing the 737-7 and 737-10 certification effort the time needed to complete this important work without introducing different systems,\u201d Boeing said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent operational experience across an airplane family is an industry best practice,\u201d Boeing said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 15, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun predicted the company would win approval for the smaller 737 MAX 7 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Calhoun said if needed, Boeing would seek \u201csome kind of extension\u201d and make a case based on the \u201csafety argument to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times reported the FAA letter earlier.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Kim Coghill, Robert Birsel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/faa-says-boeing-has\/attachment\/file-photo-the-first-boeing-737-max-7-is-unveiled-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T04L-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T04L-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Boeing it has not completed key work needed in order to certify the 737 MAX 7 by December, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}