All Boeing 737-300, 400 and 500 planes will need to be examined due to the failure that"could result in loss of control of the airplane," a document from the Federal Aviation Administration stated.
The US aviation regulator is ordering Boeing to inspect older generation 737 jets, after the January crash of an aircraft off Indonesia that killed 62 people. A failure of the "flap synchro wire" missed by the autothrottle computer -- which manages the plane's thrust -- "could result in loss of control of the airplane," the document said.
"The preliminary data of the ongoing accident investigation shows that it is highly unlikely that the accident resulted from the latent failure of the flap synchro wire," the FAA said.But it said the inspection is "necessary to address the identified unsafe condition" that could be found in the planes, which were built in the 1980s and '90s.
Shame on Israel for the vicious bombing on unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. 155 killed so far. This barbarism has once again exposed the fascist and racist nature of the Israeli state. The silence of US and European states leaves their human rights narrative in tatters