Exclusive-U.S. Congress set to include Boeing 737 MAX alerting extension in spending bill

WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers are set so as to add to a authorities spending invoice an extension of a looming deadline imposing a brand new security commonplace for contemporary cockpit alerts for 2 new variations of Boeing’s best-selling 737 MAX plane, sources instructed Reuters.

The U.S. planemaker has been lobbying for months to persuade lawmakers to waive the Dec. 27 deadline that impacts its MAX 7 and MAX 10 airplanes that was imposed by Congress in 2020 after two deadly 737 MAX crashes killed 346 individuals in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Lawmakers are additionally anticipated to require new security enhancements for present MAX plane proposed by Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell.

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