Boeing Max 9 Plane Had Been Barred from Long Flights over Water(nytimes.com)
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Boeing Max 9 Plane Had Been Barred from Long Flights over Water
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/business/boeing-max-9-plane-grounded.html
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> Alaska Airlines maintenance workers had been instructed to determine why the warning light had repeatedly gone off, but the work was not done before the flight on Friday. Instead, Ms. Homendy said, workers reset the system and the plane was put back into service, though the airline restricted it from being used on flights to destinations like Hawaii.
"...Ms. Homendy also said that there was no information on the plane’s cockpit voice recorder because the device begins re-recording after two hours, erasing the previous data, and it was not retrieved in time. Ms. Homendy said the safety board, which has been pushing to expand the two-hour period to 25 hours, had conducted 10 investigations since 2018 in which the cockpit voice recorder was similarly overwritten..."