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The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020, and again in 2024, after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
By March 18, every single Boeing 737 MAX plane (387 in total) had been grounded, which affected 8,600 weekly flights operated by 59 airlines across the globe. [8] Several ferry flights were operated with flaps extended to circumvent MCAS activation.
On 29 October 2018, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 operating the route, carrying 181 passengers and 8 crew members, crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 occupants on board. It was the first major accident and hull loss of a 737 MAX, a then recently introduced aircraft. It is the deadliest accident involving the Boeing 737 ...
It was the second fatal accident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in five months. ... The FAA temporarily grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft on March 13, 2019.
On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration gave Boeing the go-ahead to once again fly the 737 Max following a series of safety tests. After being grounded for more than a year, Boeing's 737 ...
Boeing Co <BA.N> and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed on Sunday they are reviewing a wiring issue that could potentially cause a short circuit on the grounded 737 MAX. The New ...
The 737 MAX's primary competitor is Airbus's bestseller aircraft, the A320neo. The A320neo continued to win orders in the wake of the Boeing 737 MAX grounding, booking over US$11 billion in orders, [84] with additional orders from airlines that are either canceling their 737 MAX orders altogether, or reducing quantities. [85]
A panel used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out 5 January, shortly after the flight took off from Portland, forcing the plane to return to Portland ...