MAX 9 Resumed Flying on 1/26/2024
Feb 7, 2024, 2:39 pm
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Feb 7, 2024, 4:39 pm
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Does anyone know what will become of the aircraft? Will it eventually resume flying as part of AS fleet? Will it recertify to regain ETOPS?
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Feb 7, 2024, 5:04 pm
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:55 pm
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Been on 2 7M9 in the past week. One was a rescue flight when it was too cold in FAI for the E175 to operate.
Feb 14, 2024, 9:08 pm
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Feb 14, 2024, 9:24 pm
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Feb 16, 2024, 7:37 am
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Feb 19, 2024, 10:25 am
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Next 7M9 glitch?
Today (AS30, PDX-JFK) the FAs could not get the piped-in boarding music to stop playing before takeoff. They had to disarm doors for maintenance to board. It appeared to be a 2 minute fix. Five hours of boarding music would definitely render the plane non-airworthy IMO….
Feb 20, 2024, 5:11 pm
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Today (AS30, PDX-JFK) the FAs could not get the piped-in boarding music to stop playing before takeoff. They had to disarm doors for maintenance to board. It appeared to be a 2 minute fix. Five hours of boarding music would definitely render the plane non-airworthy IMO….
Ground the fleet NOW!
Feb 20, 2024, 6:32 pm
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Today (AS30, PDX-JFK) the FAs could not get the piped-in boarding music to stop playing before takeoff. They had to disarm doors for maintenance to board. It appeared to be a 2 minute fix. Five hours of boarding music would definitely render the plane non-airworthy IMO….
Mar 7, 2024, 6:44 pm
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Meanwhile,
Investigators say they confirmed pilots’ account of a rudder-control failure on a Boeing Max jet
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...outputType=amp
Investigators say they confirmed pilots’ account of a rudder-control failure on a Boeing Max jet
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...outputType=amp
Mar 7, 2024, 10:54 pm
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Meanwhile,
Investigators say they confirmed pilots’ account of a rudder-control failure on a Boeing Max jet
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...outputType=amp
Investigators say they confirmed pilots’ account of a rudder-control failure on a Boeing Max jet
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...outputType=amp
Boeing said this is the only rudder-response issue reported on a Max, although two similar incidents happened in 2019 with an earlier model of the 737 called NG or next generation, which has the same rudder-pedal system.
Mar 12, 2024, 3:06 pm
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Just got an alert for this NYTimes story. Not great PR for Alaska.
"A day before the door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5, engineers and technicians for the airline were so concerned about the mounting evidence of a problem that they wanted the plane to come out of service the next evening and undergo maintenance, interviews and documents show.
But the airline chose to keep the plane, a Boeing 737 Max 9, in service on Jan. 5 with some restrictions, carrying passengers until it completed three flights that were scheduled to end that night in Portland, Ore., the site of one of the airline’s maintenance facilities."
"A day before the door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5, engineers and technicians for the airline were so concerned about the mounting evidence of a problem that they wanted the plane to come out of service the next evening and undergo maintenance, interviews and documents show.
But the airline chose to keep the plane, a Boeing 737 Max 9, in service on Jan. 5 with some restrictions, carrying passengers until it completed three flights that were scheduled to end that night in Portland, Ore., the site of one of the airline’s maintenance facilities."