A regulatory rift threatens to delay the relaunch of the Boeing 737 MAX
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This stance creates a crisis for certification previously unimaginable and will not be easy for Boeing to overcome. Its roots go back to before the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. In a 'Safety Emphasis Items list' first drafted in March 2018 and last revised in December, EASA notes that it may move to increase scrutiny of electronic flight control laws.
In other words, they want clear documentation of the software's functions and how the software was tested for failure modes. It is to avoid these types of global certification hurdles that regulators have worked together over the years to harmonize rules and build trust. Under normal circumstances, and as part of bilateral agreements, the FAA’s sign-off on a product might have been enough to clear it.
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