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.
The changes stemming from the October 2018 Lion Air Flight JT610 accident are being fast-tracked and rolled out on Boeing MAX family aircraft in the coming weeks.
Groundings started less than 24 hours after Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a three-month-old 737 MAX 8 crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa in clear weather March 10.
The aircraft, operating as flight ET302 to Nairobi, departed Bole International Airport at 08.38 a.m. local time with 149 passengers and eight crew members onboard.