Ethiopian airlines: Fix to 737 MAX anti-stall software is ready —industry sources

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A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready, industry sources said Saturday, as the company tries to avoid a lengthy...

A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready, industry sources said Saturday, as the company tries to avoid a lengthy grounding of its planes.

The Federal Aviation Administration will receive the patch “early next week,” a government source added. A spokesman for United Airlines, whose fleet includes 14 of the 737 MAX 9 planes, confirmed the company’s attendance at the training session.Southwest and its SWAPA pilots union “have subject matter experts from our Technical Pilot Team and Training Teams headed to Boeing to review documentation and training associated with the modification to the B737 speed trim system,” a spokeswoman said.“We’ve been working diligently and in close cooperation with the FAA on the software update.

Neither the Lion Air aircraft nor the Ethiopian Airlines jet had the feature, the industry source said. Share value of the firm, which says it is the world’s largest aerospace manufacturer, has dropped 12 percent since the accident, wiping out $28 billion in market capitalization

 

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They will experiment with people's lives

So people are still expected to fly that plane?

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