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Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) gave the go-ahead for the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to resume operations. The decision, announced late Wednesday, came a week after the FAA lifted its 20-month narrow-body grounding, which was imposed in March 2019 after two fatal accidents that resulted in the loss of 346 lives.
ANAC said it would apply exactly the same conditions as those issued by the FAA in its airworthiness directive. The organization said it had assigned 20 engineers and pilots to joint efforts with officials from Boeing and the FAA to certify the necessary changes to the aircraft.
Rather, EASA published a proposed airworthiness directive on November 24 that would impose several additional conditions, such as allowing pilots to deactivate the vibrator via a circuit breaker in the event of a false stall warning and not initially allowing -Landings. of precision. ”The European agency will also require additional pilot training to ensure pilots fully understand all aspects of the Max’s redesigned flight control system. It expects to lift the base in mid-January 2021 after a comment period of 28 days.
Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, which is the only airline operating the Max in Brazil, said last week that it could be ready to resume operations before the end of 2020, provided it has been able to approve changes to its aircraft and operating procedures. . The airline was forced to ground all seven Max 8s and reached an agreement with Boeing to cancel 34 of the 129 orders it had for the type as part of a $ 412 million deal.
Last week, Boeing launched an extensive plan covering the return-to-service process for hundreds of aircraft, beginning with those in the US In March 2020, the aircraft manufacturer resumed production of the model at a low rate.
