How Boeing Managed 737 Max During Six Years Of Grounding

It's been about six years since the Boeing 737 Max was grounded by the FAA. And at that time Boeing needed a place to store these planes and one of those locations was in Moses Lake. loading...

According to SeattleTimes.com,

‘ In what Boeing called “shadow factories,” mechanics maintained the engines and other systems on the parked planes, ensuring everything continued to work correctly. For some planes, mechanics installed a new software package to fix the MAX’s flawed flight-control system. That software — the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System — was implicated in the two fatal plane crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people .’

Even after being grounded by the FAA. Boeing continued manufacturing the 737 max for another 10 months before Boeing