Boeing 737 MAX cleared to fly again by US after crash probes
World | Nov 18, 2020, 08:07 PM ISTAfter nearly two years and a pair of deadly crashes, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Boeing’s 737 Max for flight.
After nearly two years and a pair of deadly crashes, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Boeing’s 737 Max for flight.
Aviation regulator DGCA has directed Indian airlines to inspect the Boeing B737 aircraft in their fleet after the US aviation regulator FAA issued an emergency directive on this matter on Friday, officials said.
Budget carrier SpiceJet expects to finalize a compensation deal with Boeing for grounding of its 737 Max aircraft by the end of the current quarter.
Iranian Ambassador to Ukraine Manouchehr Moradi has said that Tehran might hand over the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane to Ukraine
The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, sought no radio help in its final moments and was making a return after takeoff, an early investigation into the crash has revealed. Here's the latest from the Boeing 737-800 crash investigation.
The Ukrainian Boeing 737 carried 167 passengers and 9 crew members from different nations on its flight to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The plane crashed near Tehran airport after it suffered a technical glitch and one of its engines caught fire. The crash killed all on board.
A Ukrainian plane Boeing 737 with 176 onboard crashed near Tehran immediately after it took off from Imam Khomeini International airport. No passenger has survived in the incident. Of those who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident, 82 were Iranians and 63 Canadians.
Boeing ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg on Monday with no end in sight to the crisis that has engulfed the vaunted American aircraft manufacturer since the crash of two of its 737 Max airliners. The Boeing board had supported Muilenburg for months despite calls for his resignation from lawmakers and relatives of the passengers killed. When it became clear in recent days that federal regulators would not certify the grounded Max to fly again by year’s end as Muilenburg had hoped, the board finally abandoned him.
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a directive early last month requiring continuous inspections on its Boeing 737-600, 700, 700C, 800, 900 and 900 ER aircraft to prevent pickle forks from cracking.
The significant decline of 737 jets in the second quarter indicated Boeing is reeling from the impact of two deadly air crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in October 2018 and March 2019, respectively. Boeing delivered 89 737 airplanes in the first quarter, the Xinhua news agency reported.
What Ethiopian Airlines did in response to his warnings is unclear, and whether it made any difference is a matter of dispute. But within weeks, an Ethiopian Max indeed went down, killing all 157 people on board. It slammed into the ground amid a flurry of alarms as the pilots struggled to control a malfunction in the automatic anti-stall system.
SpiceJet is the fourth domestic airline to have 100 aircraft in its fleet, after Air India, IndiGo, and the now grounded Jet Airways.
Pilots of a chartered jet that ran into a river at a Florida military base made a last-minute change to the runway where they would make a landing, a federal investigator said on Sunday.
The Boeing 737 charter jet that was seen floating on the St. Johns River in Florida after crashing, was reminiscent of the January 2009 emergency landing of a now-defunct US Airways jet in New York's freezing Hudson River.
A Naval Air Station Jacksonville news release says a Boeing 737 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, crashed into the St. Johns River Friday night.
The announcement comes at a time when airfares have been on an upswing across India for the last few weeks due to sharp decline in number of flights primarily caused by grounding of around 90 per cent of cash-strapped Jet Airways' 119-aircraft fleet.
Boeing is temporarily cutting production of its best-selling 737 airliner in the continuing fall-out from crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.
An Ethiopian Airlines Flight crashed on March 10, killing 189 people onboard. In October 2018, a Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea, killing 157 people.
The aircraft manufacturer is taking actions to ensure the safety of its 737 Max jets in the wake of two crashes that killed 346 people.
This move is a standard safety procedure and follows the decisions taken by civil aviation authorities in many countries in the world: UN spokesperson said
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