New Japanese jet airliner Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) the second time I couldn’t fly to the US to undergo tests.
About it reports on Sunday, August 28, Bloomberg. According to him, the plane was forced to land at the departure airport two hours due to a detected failure in the a / C system. Saturday MRJ also returned to Nagoya in an hour due to a faulty air-conditioning. TASS notes that the problem, apparently, was not solved until the end.
The liner shall have completed 2.5 thousand hours to obtain safety certificates, with the bulk of the flights planned to take place in the United States. Initially it was expected that the MRJ will arrive in the U.S. state of Washington on August 29.
In the path of the plane will make several stops for refueling, including in Russia and Alaska.
MRJ is the first for more than 50 years trying to create in Japan a serial and commercial aircraft. Its development took seven years. The airliner made its first test flight in November 2015.
Range MRJ is from 1.8 to 3.7 thousand kilometers. The model has a modification on 76 and 88 passengers.
