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So can any national safety body of any member country of the ICAO ground an airplane model worldwide? Or can the U.S. do so in this case because Boeing is a U.S
by avar 14y ago
So can any national safety body of any member country of the ICAO ground an airplane model worldwide? Or can the U.S. do so in this case because Boeing is a U.S. company? What's the process a national agency goes through to ground an aircraft worldwide?
- Jtsummers 14y agoIn this case it's likely because the US FAA is the certifying body for the aircraft. If it were a Canadian or Russian or Chinese aircraft I'd expect their agencies to be similarly involved.
- eduardordm 14y agoOnly the country that emitted the certifications can cancel them. (models, not individual aircrafts). Examples of certifications DO-254 and DO-178, those are required for building avionics and general software. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B Cool stuff. When I quit flying I thought about building software for aviation. Didn't work out.
- mbq 14y agoI don't know the details but here in Poland they said in the news that European version of FAA (EASA I think) also grounded 787s; this way both LOT's 787s are grounded, one in US and one in Warsaw. EDIT: Here is the official statement (pl): http://www.lot.com/pl/web/newlot/press-info/-/asset_publisher/4MHh/content/lot-polish-airlines-statement?redirect=%2Fpl%2Fpl%2Fweb%2Fnewlot%2Fpress-info http://www.lot.com/pl/web/newlot/press-info/-/asset_publishe...