FAA Official Echoes Boeing Timeline for Max Return This Year
- U.S. safety agency says it’s coming under ‘a lot of pressure’
- Airlines have kept narrow-body jet off schedules into summer
American Airlines Group Inc. Boeing Co. 737 Max planes sit parked outside of a maintenance hangar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Boeing Co.’s 737 Max aircraft, grounded since March after two fatal crashes in five months, should be back in the air by December, a top U.S. regulator said.
It’s not possible to give an exact date as work progresses on safety fixes to the aircraft, Ali Bahrami, the Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for aviation safety, said in an interview Wednesday at a conference in Cologne, Germany.