Aircraft manufacturer Boeing said on Sunday that it had been informed by a supplier of a compliance problem on the fuselages of certain 737 MAX aircraft, Ednews reports citing La Tribune.
Setbacks are piling up for Boeing and the 737 MAX, five years after the two fatal accidents that grounded the aircraft for 22 months. On Sunday, a month after the incident in which the door was ripped off the middle of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX-9, Stan Deal, head of the American manufacturer's commercial aviation branch, reported a new problem: a supplier has informed him of a non-conformity problem with the fuselages of certain 737s, which, although not representing an immediate danger to the aircraft in flight, should require intervention on around fifty examples not yet delivered. This could lead to delivery delays.