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U.S.-Canada Rift Widens Over Training for Boeing 737 MAX Pilots
(Dow Jones News) A rift between the U.S. and Canada is growing over how to ensure the safety of Boeing Co.'s grounded 737 MAX planes, as Ottawa's focus on additional pilot training could lead to more delays in getting the jet back in the air.
Canada's transport minister signaled this week that his government could require additional simulator training for pilots of the 737 MAX. That possibility threatens to widen the gap between plans being developed by U.S. authorities to put the planes into service and those of other countries, according to industry officials and others participating in the process.
Efforts to end the grounding in the U.S. already are running months later than initially envisioned due to technical challenges, and any further delays in getting the 737 MAX airborne again elsewhere would intensify the pressure on Boeing. The plane maker faces potential liabilities stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes, while its customers are calculating the financial hit from grounded planes and postponed deliveries. The airlines themselves have been forced to rework summer flight schedules and inconvenience passengers. Additional delays due to pilot training could upend schedules over a longer period.
Even if Canada or other nations eventually decide against requiring extra simulator training related to a suspect flight-control system that is being revised, carriers voluntarily could opt for it. Europe's biggest low-cost airline, Ryanair Holdings PLC, plans to put its 737 MAX pilots through extra simulator training, according to people familiar with the carrier's thinking, joining American Airlines Group Inc. in that approach.
"Simulators are the very best way from a training point of view to go over exactly what could happen in a real way and to react properly to it, " Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau said. "It's not going to be a question of pulling out an iPad and spending an hour on it."
No formal decision about simulator training has yet been made, a spokeswoman for Mr. Garneau said.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has tentatively decided against mandating additional simulator instruction as part of a package of measures that is anticipated within weeks and includes a software fix for the flight-control system implicated in the two crashes, which happened within five months of each other.
But the issue is heating up. Industry officials said the FAA could change its stance based on input from foreign regulators, as well as on responses by domestic pilot unions and other groups during a public comment period ending April 30.
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