{"id":178078,"date":"2019-03-13T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/13\/the-737-max-is-grounded\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:30:00","slug":"the-737-max-is-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/13\/the-737-max-is-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"The 737 MAX Is Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>And the FAA was literally <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/commercial-aviation\/global-fleet-boeing-737-max-aircraft-grounded\">the last regulatory agency to pull the aircraft from passenger service<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/awin.aviationweek.com\/OrganizationProfiles.aspx?orgId=31159\">FAA<\/a>, relying on refined satellite tracking data and new physical evidence that more closely links two crashes of <a href=\"http:\/\/awin.aviationweek.com\/ProgramProfileDetails.aspx?pgId=634&amp;pgName=Boeing+737NG\">Boeing 737<\/a> MAX 8s, grounded <a href=\"http:\/\/awin.aviationweek.com\/OrganizationProfiles.aspx?orgId=12083\">Boeing<\/a>\u2019s newest narrowbody Mar. 13, with immediate effect. <\/p>\n<p>The move ends three days of cascading groundings after the Mar. 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/awin.aviationweek.com\/OrganizationProfiles.aspx?orgId=21507\">Ethiopian Airlines<\/a> Flight 302 (ET302) accident, and leaves the world\u2019s MAX fleet grounded. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Mar. 13, 2018, the investigation of the ET302 crash developed new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft\u2019s configuration just after takeoff that, taken together with newly refined data from satellite-based tracking of the aircraft\u2019s flight path, indicates some similarities between the ET302 and [October 2018 Lion Air Flight] JT610 accidents that warrant further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents that needs to be better understood and addressed,\u201d FAA said in its emergency order. <\/p>\n<p>FAA Acting Administrator Dan Elwell, speaking to reporters after the order was released, made it clear that FAA made the decision to ground the aircraft. \u201cThe FAA is the safety authority for emergency airworthiness directives and orders,\u201d he said. \u201cFAA made the decision.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the EU grounded the aircraft in Europe, the FAA really had no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the FAA was literally the last regulatory agency to pull the aircraft from passenger service: The U.S. FAA, relying on refined satellite tracking data and new physical evidence that more closely links two crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8s, grounded Boeing\u2019s newest narrowbody Mar. 13, with immediate effect. The move ends three days of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,374,437,548],"class_list":["post-178078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}