U.S. lawmakers decline to add Boeing 737 MAX exemption in defense bill By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers late on Tuesday declined to add an extension to an annual defense bill of a looming deadline that would impose a new safety standard for modern cockpit alerts for two new versions of Boeing (NYSE:)’s best selling 737 MAX aircraft.

The U.S. planemaker has been lobbying to convince lawmakers to waive the deadline that affects its MAX 7 and MAX 10 airplanes and was imposed by Congress in 2020 after two fatal 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.