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A national safety board has issued a rare, urgent warning over the risk of Boeing 737 Max engines malfunctioning and letting smoke into an airplane cabin or cockpit.

The National Transportation Safety Board warned that certain CFM engines installed in some Boeing 737 Max jets may feed smoke into the cockpit or cabin after a bird strike.

Now, safety experts from the NTSB released a statement urging recommended modifications for aircraft using the CFM International LEAP-1B engines, which can be found on the Boeing 737 Max.

The National Transportation Safety Board warned that certain CFM engines installed in some Boeing 737 Max jets may feed smoke into the cockpit or cabin after a bird strike.

The agency also recommended evaluating other engines from CFM, like Leap 1A and Leap 1C. The recommendations stem from two separate incidents in 2023 when a bird was ingested into the engines ...

More recently, CFM has faced a new headache, the result of an ongoing strike by Boeing’s unionised machinists, who walked off the job on 13 September, forcing Boeing to stop producing jets in ...