The Federal Aviation Administration announced today that it will be forming a joint task for with NASA and international regulators to review the software update for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft as new details from the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash emerge. International Task Force FormedIn a statement today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the formation of an international task force composed of experts from the FAA, NASA, and regulatory agencies from around the world who will review the proposed software update for the embattled Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Boeing said in a statement that “The flight crew performed different scenarios that exercised various aspects of the software changes to test failure conditions. The software update worked as designed, and the pilots landed safely at Boeing Field." Both planes were relatively new 737 MAX 8 aircraft and both displayed similar flight behavior just prior to the crash, indicating that the MCAS system may have been linked to both crashes.

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2019 01:43 UTC