The FAA has launched an evaluation of Boeing’s new crew alerting system and the enhanced angle-of-attack system intended for the 737 MAX 10. The review also covers the safety upgrades mandated by law after the MAX accidents, which are required to be implemented across the entire MAX family.
The review process is tied to regulations introduced after the two MAX tragedies in 2018 and 2019, which required cockpit alert systems to adopt more intuitive designs. The accidents, caused by MCAS repeatedly activating due to faulty sensor data, resulted in the loss of 346 lives and led to the global grounding of the MAX fleet for 20 months.
The FAA stated that, following the previous accidents, it became mandatory to make cockpit alerts more comprehensible, and the agency will now assess whether the updates proposed by Boeing can be consistently applied across all MAX variants.
