This is a safety warning, aircraft must not be grounded.
The US Civil Aviation Authority has advised US carriers to conduct an emergency inspection of another type of Boeing aircraft. This is in response to the release of part of the fuselage in early January on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 flight. The 737-900ER aircraft has the emergency exit cover designed in the same way.
The measurement published on the FAA website refers to the inspection of the predecessor of the longest version of the 737 MAX, the 737-900ER model. Some couriers have already confirmed that they started carrying out checks last week.
More than three hundred aircraft of this type fly in the United States alone. United Airlines has 136, Delta 163, Alaska Airlines 79. Smartwing also have the same type of aircraft, but are not affected by the inspection. They do not have the grip, confirmed Smartwings spokesperson Vladimíra Dufková.
The reason for the verification recommendation is the fact that aircraft of this type have the same solution for darkening the emergency exit door. The FAA stressed that this was only a safety alert, unlike the previous grounding of the 737 MAX 9 plane. According to the agency, no such problems have been identified so far.
(We have deleted from the text the information about a possible check of this type at Smartwings, they fly with this type in a different version)
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2024-01-22 09:49:18
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