It's been over a year since the jet that figured in two crashes was last flown. On Wednesday, FAA chief Stephen Dickson gave the Senate an update.
Dickson offered no new guidance as to when the Max will fly again.into the year on their flight schedules as the recertification process has dragged on.
"The redesign of the airplane is not just limited to changing MCAS functionality," Dickson said."The entire flight control system – Boeing undertook this in the June-July time frame of last year – became a much more ambitious project."He added that the improvements are going forward"very diligently and very carefully." And he said the process has not been delayed by work stoppages due to the pandemic.
He called the 737 Max a flawed design from the start, saying it was an attempt to continue to update a 50-year-old design in a way that gave it aerodynamic flaws.
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