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A Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled emergency landing in Tuscon, Arizona, on December 22, after facing some problems with its engines. The AirCanada flight was traveling from Arizona to Montreal, but began to face some problems with its left engine, causing it to deviate from its route. The incident comes just a month after US authorities gave the plane the go-ahead to fly again.
‘Turn off an engine’
In a later statement, the airline stated that there were only three crew members on board who received an “engine indication” and “decided to shut down an engine.” According to Aviation.24.be, the pilots received a low hydraulic pressure indication from the left engine minutes after being removed from the storage facility. Regardless, they decided that the plane would continue to Montreal. However, they soon got an indication of a fuel imbalance on the left, forcing them to turn it off.
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This comes as a report from the United States Congress concluded. that Boeing officials “improperly trained” test pilots during recertification efforts after two fatal 737 Max crashes killed 346 people. The Senate Commerce Committee report alleged that both Boeing officials and the Federal Aviation Administration “had established a predetermined result to reaffirm a long-standing human factor assumption related to pilot reaction time.”
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The investigation began on advice from a whistleblower who alleged that Boeing officials encouraged test pilots to use a particular control during an exercise, resulting in a pilot response time of around four seconds. However, if it is done without the particular control, it took another pilot 16 seconds to react in the same test. The report alleged that Boeing, on numerous previous occasions, had failed to adequately consider how pilots respond to cabin emergencies in its development of the 737 Max.
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