Boeing to Skirt Closed Border by Sending Max to Canada for Test
- Canadian officials will be picked up, dropped off in Vancouver
- Grounded jet faces first exam by non-U.S. regulators next week
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Boeing Co. and Transport Canada have worked out a novel way to skirt closed borders so that the aviation regulator can run its own tests of revamped flight-control software on the grounded 737 Max.
In a break with custom prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, Boeing will fly a Max over the border to Vancouver early next week rather than basing all the activity in Seattle. Flight testing will take place in U.S. airspace, with the aircraft then returning to British Columbia to drop off Transport Canada staff, the regulator said in an email Friday.