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I thought they were grounded. Edit: Checked flightaware, it was Boing itself flying it.
by yarosv 8y ago
I thought they were grounded.
Edit: Checked flightaware, it was Boing itself flying it.
- rconti 8y agoOnly from commercial service
- danaliv 8y agoSort of. All flights in U.S. territory, and by U.S. airlines anywhere in the world, are banned. Non-passenger flights can be authorized but they require either a Special Flight Permit (a specific process for authorizing ferry flights of any non-airworthy aircraft) or an Experimental Airworthiness Certificate (which you may know of from homebuilts, but in this case it's for testing design changes).[1] 1. https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf
- msbarnett 8y agoBoeing's flying test-flights to test software fixes etc out of their Seattle facility
- donarb 8y agoSouthwest Airlines was allowed to fly all of their grounded jets to a facility in Arizona a few weeks after the initial grounding. The FAA allows this as long as there are no passengers on board.