{"id":1047,"date":"2020-04-10T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:28:33","slug":"faa-orders-inspections-of-boeing-737-ng-planes-for-structural-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders inspections of Boeing 737 NG planes for structural cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/fpotdpe0nif.jpg\" alt=\"US aviation regulators ordered inspections on Boeing 737 NG planes after Boeing discovered structural cracks on a plane in China\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                US aviation regulators ordered inspections on Boeing 737 NG planes after Boeing discovered structural cracks on a plane in China<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of Boeing 737 NG aircraft for structural cracks after Boeing discovered the problem on planes undergoing modifications, the agency said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>The mandate affects 1,911 US-registered aircraft and is expected to require about 165 planes to be inspected within seven days, the agency said. The NG is a precursor plane to the Boeing 737 MAX, which has been grounded since mid-March following two deadly crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said Boeing notified the agency of the problem after encountering the issue on a plane in China and that subsequent inspections showed other planes also had cracks.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the inspections can be done visually and require about an hour. <\/p>\n<p>The order comes as Boeing faces stepped-up oversight from the FAA and international regulators in the wake of crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines that together claimed 346 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing has targeted the fourth quarter to win approval from regulators to resume flights on the MAX, while acknowledging that the time-frame is up to regulators.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US aviation regulators ordered inspections on Boeing 737 NG planes after Boeing discovered structural cracks on a plane in China The Federal Aviation Administration has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[400,708,709,707,462],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-tos","tag-boeing","tag-faa","tag-inspections","tag-ng","tag-orders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}