Dispute arises among U.S. pilots on Boeing 737 MAX system linked to Lion Air crash

The United Airlines pilot leadership, in a sharp break with peers at American Airlines and Southwest, pushed back against criticism of Boeing for not disclosing to airlines the existence of a new automatic flight control system on the MAX. (www.seattletimes.com) More...

Lion Air: a deadly crash and a whole lot of questions for Boeing

Questions swirled Wednesday about how Boeing had failed to tell airlines and pilots about changes to an anti-stall system suspected in last month's fatal crash in Indonesia. (www.dailymail.co.uk) More...

Southwest flight clips another plane’s wing at St. Louis Airport

ST. LOUIS - The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation regarding an incident concerning two commercial airliners that came in contact with each other at St. Louis-Lambert International Airport. “We were fully boarded and then heard a little boom,” said Nathaniel Jensen, a passenger on the WOW jet. ** Watch the Video ** (fox2now.com) More...

One more Pilot Union to express concern about safety documentation of Boeing 737 MAX jets

A safety feature concerning the false angle of attack data is under investigation after Lion Air crash last month. Zwingly Silalahi, the operations director at Lion Air, also uttered his disappointment during an interview yesterday. Now a third pilots’ union, the Air Line Pilots Association, wrote to Federal Aviation Administration on November 15th, expressing the Union's anxiety about the lack of documentation for a critical safety procedure. (airlinerwatch.com) More...

American Airlines 'unaware' of some Boeing 737 MAX functions until last week

American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O) said on Wednesday it was "unaware" of some functions of an anti-stall system on Boeing Co's (BA.N) 737 MAX until last week. Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued guidance on the system last week after a Lion Air jet crashed in Indonesia on Oct. 29, killing all 189 people on board. The FAA warned airlines last week that erroneous inputs from the system's sensors could lead the jet to automatically pitch its nose… (www.yahoo.com) More...

World War II fighter plane crashes

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas - A vintage World War II fighter plane has crashed into the parking lot of an apartment complex in Fredericksburg, Texas, killing the two people on board. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the aircraft was destroyed and several automobiles damaged. ---- From what I was told this flew as recently as the Wings Over Houston back in October. (www.statesman.com) More...