Boeing and Air Works collaborate on Indian Navy's P-8I fleet

 

Highlighting the progress of the public authority's Atmanirbhar Bharat (confident India) crusade, Air Works - an Indian support, fix, and redesign (MRO) organization - is collaborating The Boeing Company in endeavor weighty upkeep keeps an eye on three Indian Navy P-8I long-range oceanic watch airplane all the while at Air Works, Hosur.

"This decisively expands the degree and size of MRO embraced in the nation and exhibits both the organizations' responsibility in aiding make India Aatmanirbhar in aviation and safeguard," expressed a Boeing official statement on Thursday.

The joint effort among Boeing and Air Works has empowered quicker turnarounds and upgraded functional ability inside India for key protection stages. The organization started with minds the P-8I Poseidon airplane, and has developed to remember checks and MRO for the arrival stuff of the Indian Air Force's Boeing 737 VVIP airplane.

Laid out in 1951, Air Works Group is India's greatest free MRO with a skillet Indian presence across 27 urban areas.

Pakistan F-16 jets escorted SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft in September

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Pakistan Air Force F-16 planes escorted a Kabul-bound SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft in September in a case of mistaken identity. The incident took place amid heightened tensions between two neighbours.
Sources said Pakistan Air Force intercepted the SpiceJet plane operating a Delhi-Kabul flight following a mix-up over its identity. The plane was identified as an Indian Air Force aircraft and then escorted by the Pakistani jets till it exited its airspace. “It was an uneventful flight thereafter. No one was injured. The incident was reported to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the pilot was debriefed,” said an official aware of the matter.
Air traffic controllers track aircraft with help of a radar. Aircraft are fitted with transponders that assist in radar identification. Each aircraft is assigned a particular transponder code. During flight pilots use call signs to communicate with air traffic controllers.
SpiceJet did not comment on the incident.
According to a newswire report, there were 120 passengers on board the flight. It added that the pilots of the Indian aircraft were asked to reduce their altitude which they complied with.

 Pakistan had shut its airspace in February after an Indian air strike within Pakistan territory that month. The restrictions were eased and airspace opened for Indian aircraft in July.

Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue for more than a year, says FAA

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Boeing Co did not tell US regulators for more than a year that it inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 MAX, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but insisted on Sunday the missing display represented no safety risk.

The US planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was optional on the 737 MAX.

Erroneous data from a sensor responsible for measuring the angle at which the wing slices through the air - known as the Angle of Attack - is suspected of triggering a flawed piece of software that pushed the plane downward in two recent crashes.

In a statement, Boeing said it only discovered once deliveries of the 737 MAX had begun in 2017 that the so-called AOA Disagree alert was optional instead of standard as it had intended, but added that was not critical safety data.

A Federal Aviation Administration official told Reuters on Sunday that Boeing waited 13 months before informing the agency in November 2018.

By becoming optional, the alert had been treated in the same way as a separate indicator showing raw AOA data, which is seldom used by commercial pilots and had been an add-on for years."Neither the angle of attack indicator nor the AOA Disagree alert are necessary for the safe operation of the airplane," Boeing said.


 "They provide supplemental information only, and have never been considered safety features on commercial jet transport airplanes."

Boeing says 737 Max 8 is 'not suitable' for challenging airports

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Before last month’s crash of a flight that began in Ethiopia, Boeing Co. said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s “cannot be used at what are referred to as ‘high/hot’ airports."

At an elevation of 7,657 feet -- or more than a mile high -- Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport falls into that category. High elevations require longer runways and faster speeds for takeoff. The Ethiopian airport’s altitude hasn’t been cited as a factor in the downing of Flight 302 and likely didn’t cause the crash. But it could have exacerbated the situation because an airplane’s performance degrades at higher altitudes, said a 737 pilot who flies into high-elevation airports such as Denver and agreed to speak on background since he’s not authorized to talk with the media.

Data released last week from the Ethiopian Airlines flight indicated the pilots didn’t cut the 737 Max 8 airplane’s speed after takeoff when they should have. The preliminary report on the disaster said the plane’s anti-stall system pushed the nose of the plane down less than two minutes into the flight because of a malfunctioning sensor. The pilots struggled to control the plane as it hurtled toward the ground at 575 miles per hour.

“The faster the airplane is going, the more force of air there is on its wings and control surfaces which requires more force on the pilots’ part to pull the control” column, said Robert Mark, a commercial pilot and senior editor with Flying Magazine.


 Boeing cited the performance of the 737 Max 8 in a case brought before the US International Trade Commission in 2017. Boeing charged that unfair competition from Bombardier -- which beat out Boeing for a large order from Delta Air Lines -- threatened its 737-700 and Max 7, the smallest of its upgraded single-aisle jets. By pointing out the limitations of the Max 8, the planemaker sought to preserve market share for the 700 and Max 7.