MCAS, which provides automatic stabilizer inputs that put the aircraft's nose down, is the focus of the October 2018 crash of Lion Air flight JT610, a 737 MAX 8.
Vaibhav Kumar, an aerospace engineering graduate student at Georgia Tech and one of Aviation Week’s 2019 20 Twenties winners, talks about founding startup AirLogs—which seeks to save mechanics time by digitally analyzing maintenance records.
StandardAero has received STC approval to install the SmartSky 4G LTE system on several Embraer models and plans to seek approval for other aircraft types.
Craig Barton, vice president of technical services at American Airlines, discusses some of its day-to-day maintenance planning processes and gives insight on its large-scale fleet retrofit plans.