The union for pilots at American Airlines says Congress shouldn’t give Boeing an exemption to keep older-style cockpit alerting systems on new variants of 737 Max jets.
Chicago-based Boeing has pushed to keep the same cockpit alarm systems in new 737 Max variants, even getting Congress to pass a two-year exemption in late 2020 to a modernization requirement. Boeing says it should be allowed to keep one common cockpit system on all 737 planes, even with the 737 Max 7 and 737 Max 10 variants that are in the Federal Aviation Administration certification process.
Without more time, Boeing may be forced to redesign the cockpit alert systems.
