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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.
The Boeing 737 MAX airliner, which began service in 2017, was involved in two fatal accidents, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, that resulted from a malfunction of the aircraft's new flight stabilizing software, [1] the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
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 ...
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 6, 2024. Alaska Airlines grounded its 737 MAX 9 planes after part of a fuselage blew off ...
The FAA grounded all Boeing 737 Max and and Max 9 planes in response to two crashes which killed hundreds of people. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune/) March 13, 2019.
The FAA immediately grounded 171 737-9 MAX airplanes operated by Alaska and United Airlines in the wake of the event, though the agency lifted its grounding on Jan. 24. Alaska Airlines resumed its ...
Some of the dozens of undelivered 737 MAX aircraft parked at Boeing Field in Seattle after the type was grounded, 2019. The 737 MAX was grounded after two fatal crashes, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, in which a total of 346 people died. The day following the second crash, China ...
By David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher (Reuters) -U.S. regulators on Saturday temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout ...