Boeing in a dive: deliveries a break

Boeing recorded for the year 2019 of the enormous loss of aircraft sales. Reason, the two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX series. Chicago - The two crashes of t

Boeing in a dive: deliveries a break

Boeing recorded for the year 2019 of the enormous loss of aircraft sales. Reason, the two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX series.

Chicago - The two crashes of the Boeing 737-series are now for a fall delivery, pay at Boeing. How the U.S. aviation giant is telling, have led the global launch of the prohibitions to a sharp decline in orders.

So 89 machines in the 737 series in the first quarter of the clientele, the group announced recently. In the prior-year period, there were still 132. Deliveries of commercial aircraft in total, there was a decline from 184 to 149 machines.

to Boeing is in crisis after two plane crashes

After a two-crash of two identical planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, where within a few months, a total of 346 people died, were world-wide flight bans for Boeing's 737-MAX series imposed. Deliveries of the best-selling model series, has been stopped as a result.

Up to further clarify the causes of accidents and problems with a control software, it is unclear how to do it with the aviators on. Recently Boeing announced plans to cut production significantly. Meanwhile, it was now known that the aircraft manufacturer Boeing had already determined in may 2017, that there were problems with the warning system.

to Boeing-crisis: by mid-August, not machines in use

According to a report in the Wall Street journal, the machines should be before the middle of August ready for use. So you would not be for large parts of the holiday traffic. This now threatens to lead to the ruin of the world's largest travel group TUI, the summer business. The insurer, Allianz is started surprisingly strong start to the year, but also for him, the Boeing could come to be part of the crashes is still expensive.

+ Boeing comes not from the headlines: Recently, a model of the number of 737 crashed into a river in the United States.©AFP / MONICA R. HOPPER

The U.S. aviation authority FAA is currently in the process of certifying a Boeing improved Software for the flight control system MCAS. The Software is considered to be a possible cause for the crashes of two machines of the Indonesian airline Lion Air and the Ethiopian society, Ethiopian Airlines. The on-Board computer should not have pressed the nose of the Boeing down, the crew was able to correct the error.

The FAA had already announced ten days ago that the certification process can take several months. According to information of the "Wall Street Journal" also have to be foreign aviation security authorities and whose answers wait to be contacted. Meanwhile, another incident brought the plane to the number of 737 in the headlines: From Guantanamo naval base, it should go for 136 passengers and seven crew members home in the United States. The Boeing 737 slipped, however, when landing at a US airport in a river.

Date Of Update: 20 May 2019, 00:02
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