Bombardier’s CRJ1000 remains grounded by the airframer as it continues to work to resolve a software glitch associated with the rudder control-by-wire system.

However, the Canadian firm remains confident that its latest target to deliver the first CRJ1000 before the end of its 2011 fiscal year is achievable. And it insists there is a “silver lining” to the programme’s delay.

“We’re seeing some potential reliability improvements we can make to the software and give to our customers. Some good came out of this despite of the bad news,” says Bombardier vice-president commercial aircraft programmes Ben Boehm.

In July the regional aircraft programme experienced a software glitch associated with the rudder control-by-wire system. At that time, Bombardier thought it had found the root cause and put a fix in place. Yet, one month later, the airframer experienced another glitch for which it could not determine the root cause, and the CRJ1000 flight test programme - wh

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