The American aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, announced yesterday, Saturday, that it had detected a new software problem in its widespread 737 MAX fleet.
The company said the problem could deprive pilots of the autopilot system during a specific landing scenario after a landing attempt was aborted.
Boeing explained that pilots are trained to handle such situations safely using current procedures, adding that engineers are working on a software update to completely fix the problem.
It is still not clear how many of the more than 2,000 737 MAX aircraft have been delivered so far.
It is noteworthy that the 737 Max model plunged Boeing into the worst crisis in its history after two accidents in October 2018 and March 2019 that killed 346 people.
Boeing said it informed all aircraft operators of the latest software problem last August.
The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Boeing document, that the company said at the time that the problem did not pose a safety risk.
The newspaper said that Southwest Airlines and United Airlines do not want to receive the plane affected by the problem. The US Federal Aviation Administration is studying the issue.
The Wall Street Journal explained that Boeing was informed of the problem by a company operating the plane in November 2024.
The newspaper indicated that initially, the company did not consider the problem sufficiently serious to issue a memorandum to conduct a formal safety review. This review was launched in September.
Maxim Tarasenko keeps an eye on his phone while shopping in a Kiev store, as residents of the Ukrainian capital are now monitoring news of Moscow marches at any moment in anticipation of any attack, while they shop and continue their daily lives.
The 26-year-old young man, while shopping in one of the stores of the Ukrainian “Silpo” chain, complains that his favorite drink has disappeared from the shelves. He says: “There is no longer any Coca-Cola at all, not even any alternative product,” and the reason is, of course, the Russian bombing. Maxim explains that last month, “there were no more potatoes or grains, and some types of vegetables were cut off.”
Moscow recently focused its bombing on civilian warehouses in the Kiev region, and the number of its air attacks on them over the past nine months increased by three times the total of its raids during the first four years of the invasion, and a third of the raids were recorded since the beginning of August, according to press analyzes based on data from the “ACLID” organization specializing in analyzing armed conflicts until September 18.
Ukrainian Food Minister Taras Vysotsky admitted that this campaign “severely confused, and even completely disrupted,” the operational model of major supermarket chains based on central logistics platforms. The Minister called on retail chains to adopt decentralization in their logistical operations, and to rely on short supply chains and smaller warehouses or those located in neighboring countries.
After suffering severe blows, the Fawzi Group, which owns the Silbo chain of stores, announced in early August the reorganization of its logistics operations. Despite the absence of some brands, these stores have regained their vitality today.
Economist Oleg Bendzin reported that the Russian attacks caused a deficit of approximately $1.3 billion for the Ukrainian state. Vysotsky, for his part, warned that the reorganization of logistical chains may cause an increase in the prices of food products to consumers by up to 2.5 percent, while inflation reached 8.1 percent in August at an annual rate, according to figures from the Central Bank of Ukraine.
The Greek Fire Department said yesterday, Saturday, that six people were killed after a two-story residential building collapsed in a tourist area in central Athens following an explosion that the capital's mayor suggested was linked to the gas network.
American officials said that the explosion killed 4 Americans. Vassilis Vathrakyannis, spokesman for the fire department, said that emergency teams found the bodies of the six people who died.
The explosion, which occurred on Friday, destroyed a building in the Plaka neighbourhood, near some of Athens' most famous tourist attractions, damaging homes, shops and cars.
