Top FAA official will personally fly grounded Boeing 737 MAX in Seattle next week
Before the grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX is lifted, Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson said he would personally fly it. That flight is now scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Dickson and Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell are both former airline pilots and will train in a full motion 737 MAX flight simulator before the flight, to mimic the training that all MAX pilots would take before flying the jet.
The FAA, along with Transport Canada, the European Aviation Safety Agency and the equivalent from Brazil, had been meeting under the joint Operations Evaluation Board reviewing Boeing’s proposed return to service training.
The FAA has cautioned that the administrators' flight is not the final hurdle before the now 18-month grounding is lifted in the U.S. The agency said it’s still reviewing comments received on its draft Airworthiness Directive that, when implemented, would lift the grounding.
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