The bill, which has bipartisan support, would give the Federal Aviation Administration a say in which Boeing employees carry out safety oversight work on the agency’s behalf, rebalancing a system that reviews of the crashes have blamed for the FAA missing safety problems with the jets.

The legislation also would provide the FAA an extra $30 million a year to beef up its own engineering and technical teams and calls for some two dozen other changes to the nation’s aviation safety regime.

He also said concerns about the plane's safety raised earlier this month by the FAA's own safety engineers are under consideration by the officials certifying the plane. The safety engineers, in a document submitted to the FAA by their union, said additional work is needed before the jet should be cleared for passenger flights.

The draft document from the FAA’s Flight Standardization Board (FSB) covers pilot procedures for all models of the 737, with a “special emphasis training” section focused on the MAX’s revamped flight-control software that activated erroneously on the two crash flights and forced the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines jets into fatal nose dives...The proposed minimum training requirements require pilots to practice handling of various failure scenarios in a full-flight simulator.

Ryanair has said it expects the controversial Boeing 737 Max plane to be allowed to fly again in the US in the next month or so.

The airline's boss, Eddie Wilson, said it hoped to start taking delivery of the planes early next year. No Max planes have flown since March 2019 after issues with its software were linked to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people. Before the flight ban, Ryanair had 135 of them on order. "The first of those we would hope to arrive in very early 2021," Mr Wilson told Ireland's Newstalk radio station.

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oschkosch wrote:

MOL, so take it with a grain of salt!

Ryanair expects Boeing 737 Max jet clearance soon

Ryanair has said it expects the controversial Boeing 737 Max plane to be allowed to fly again in the US in the next month or so.

The airline's boss, Eddie Wilson, said it hoped to start taking delivery of the planes early next year. No Max planes have flown since March 2019 after issues with its software were linked to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people. Before the flight ban, Ryanair had 135 of them on order. "The first of those we would hope to arrive in very early 2021," Mr Wilson told Ireland's Newstalk radio station.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54477605

aschachter wrote:

This has also been picked up by Flight International (You might need to register for a free account to read this)

https://www.flightglobal.com/fleets/rya ... 2012102020

A388 wrote:

aschachter wrote:

This has also been picked up by Flight International (You might need to register for a free account to read this)

https://www.flightglobal.com/fleets/rya ... 2012102020

It is still behind a pay wall, even with the free account. I can't open it

A388

The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots said Monday that the FAA should reduce the number of steps pilots must remember and carry out in the type of emergency that occurred before both Max crashes.