New Electrical Flaw Grounds More Than 60 737 MAXs, Adding to Boeing s Woes
In this Dec. 2, 2020 photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet plane is parked at a maintenance facility in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Military.com
10 Apr 2021
A minor change in Boeing s 737 MAX manufacturing process that was insufficiently vetted caused an electrical system problem that on Friday temporarily grounded more than 60 of the aircraft out of almost 200 MAXs that have returned to service since December.
While this latest manufacturing flaw is unrelated to the flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes that grounded the MAX for nearly two years, it slows the positive momentum that had begun to build as more MAXs took to the air and new orders came in from United, Alaska and Southwest.