Aircraft
Despite delay, CRJ1000 delivering on promises
Bombardier’s CRJ1000 ap-peared on track for certification soon after this week’s Dubai Air Show until the company announced a few months ago that a softwar

Bombardier’s CRJ1000 ap-peared on track for certification soon after this week’s Dubai Air Show until the company announced a few months ago that a software glitch would force it to delay approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) until the first quarter of its next fiscal year, starting February 1. Speaking with AIN in early September, Bombardier Aerospace vice president of commercial aircraft programs Ben Boehm declined to identify the equipment involved or name the manufacturer concerned, disclosing only that the problem resided in the airplane’s flight control system.

“I don’t want to get into the specifics of which part of the flight control system and which supplier,” Boehm told AIN. “In airplanes they’re all connected, anyway. One can’t work without the other.”