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Boeing 737 MAX continues to have errors, affecting handover

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Planemaker Boeing continues to experience an electrical problem on some of its 737 MAX planes, which is affecting its ability to deliver new planes.
Boeing has just said that it has delivered 17 aircraft in April, however, including 4 737 MAX planes. Boeing CEO David Calhoun recently said that the delivery time of these aircraft has been affected due to the aforementioned problem with the 737 MAX.

Boeing suspends 737 MAX deliveries due to electrical problems. (Source: Rappler) The slow delivery process will affect Boeing’s cash flow, as airlines and customers often pay most of the order value after receiving the goods. The 737 MAX is Boeing’s best-selling plane, but has been grounded for 20 months after two crashes that killed 346 people. Deliveries of the aircraft resumed in November last year, after Boeing updated its flight control system. But now, about 100 737 MAX planes are still “on hold” because of an electrical fault, and it took Boeing longer than anticipated to fix the problem. Ed Pierson, a former Boeing production manager, said the electrical fault should have been discovered during the evaluation of the 737 MAX aircraft after the two crashes. He once “complained” to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for focusing only on reviewing the flight control system without checking for other problems in the production process. Boeing said it received an order for 25 planes last month, but 17 of the 737 MAX planes were cancelled, leaving the number of planes ordered down to just eight. (according to Rappler)