Bombardier’s CRJ1000 program now appears unlikely to receive Canadian and EASA certification before the second half of this year–a delay of at least another three months–after a second
software “glitch” grounded all test flying in September, Bombardier Aerospace COO Guy Hachey said last month during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Hachey said Bombardier plans to resume flying its pair of CRJ1000 test aircraft “shortly after Christmas,” at which time it would still need to complete roughly 30 percent of its testing regime.
The first software problem, initially revealed during early summer, delayed planned certification from late this year to Bombardier’s first fiscal quarter of next year, which runs from February 1 to April 30. That so-called glitch involved the airplane’s new control-by-wire rudder system. “At the time we thought we had found the root cause; we did put some fixes in place, and we experienced another one almost a month-and-a-half later [at the end of August] similar to the one we had earlier,” said Hachey.
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