Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

In this file photo taken on March 28, 2019 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked on the tarmac after being grounded, at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California. (AFP)

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Debate over pulling fuses widens regulatory cracks on 737 MAX

The two MAX crashes, involving a computer that pushed the nose down because of false flight data, had already undermined decades of efforts to harmonize safety rules as regulators worldwide banned the jet without waiting for the FAA

Updated 19 December 2020

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CHICAGO: Boeing's 737 MAX is set to return to the skies in Canada with a local twist in the cockpit, after Ottawa became the last major Western regulator to lift a 20-month safety ban.

Small print in Thursday's Transport Canada announcement sheds light on a regulatory split over the use of a less common tactic to overcome cockpit distractions, deepening international disunity over the lessons from two fatal crashes.

Transport Canada joined the US Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators in requiring more training and revisions to MCAS anti-stall software implicated