FAA chief will pilot Boeing’s 737 MAX in Seattle Wednesday as ungrounding nears

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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson on Wednesday will fulfill a promise he made just months after taking command of the regulatory agency in the midst of Boeing’s 737 MAX crisis.

“I am not going to sign off on this aircraft until I fly it myself and am satisfied I would put my own family on it without a second thought,” Dickson told FAA employees last November.

On Wednesday he’ll take off from Boeing Field in a high-profile test flight intended as Dickson’s personal assurance to the public that the MAX is safe following 19 months of intense scrutiny by his agency.

It’s the clearest signal yet that the FAA is poised to unground the jet in late October or early November.

The MAX was grounded worldwide in early March 2019 after the second of two fatal accidents that together killed 346 people aboard almost-new aircraft. A series of investigations established that the pilots on the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines jets struggled against a flawed flight control system on the MAX that overcame their commands.

Since then, the FAA and international regulators have been minutely examining the fixes proposed by Boeing.

https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...ax-in-seattle-wednesday-as-ungrounding-nears/
 
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The flight itself

Today’s test flight came after US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) head Steve Dickson spent a few days in Seattle doing some distance learning training and pilot training. Boeing proposed and the Joint Operations Evaluation Board (JOEB) assessed and analyzed as part of its inquiry into the MAX. After completing that, Administrator Dickson boarded a MAX and flew it for about two hours today. With the test flight completed, Administrator Dickson held a press conference on the MAX.

Below is some video the FAA released on the MAX flight from September 30th flown by Administrator Dickson:


FAA Administrator on the MAX

In a press conference after flying the 737 MAX, Administrator Dickson stated the following:

“Shortly after I took the helm at the FAA, I made a promise that I would fly the 737 MAX and that I wouldn’t sign off on its return until I was comfortable putting my family on it. I took the same training, beginning last weekend and into this week, that the JOEB looked at during its work at London-Gatwick Airport in recent days. This was followed by a session in the 737 simulator, during which I had the opportunity to experience a variety of problems that presented the relevant emergencies that might occur. Today I flew a similar flight profile in the aircraft itself.”

https://simpleflying.com/faa-chief-737-max/
 
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