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That same day, a Boeing B737-800 operated by Jeju Air as Flight 7C101 experienced problems with its landing gear shortly after taking off from Gimpo International Airport on its way to Jeju at 6:37 a.m., prompting it to return to Gimpo at 7:25 a.m. Twenty-one passengers backed out from boarding a transfer flight offered an hour later. [119]
March 13, the U.S. FAA was among the last to order the grounding of the 737 MAX, after claiming there was no reason: China had the most aircraft in service, 96, followed by the U.S. with 72, Canada with 39 and India with 21. The FAA issued an Emergency Order of Prohibition grounding Boeing 737 MAX airplanes, followed by a CANIC. [74]
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).
The 737-800 is an older iteration of Boeing’s 737 series of jets, which first flew in 1997 and was phased out for the 737 Max jets. Per aviation data firm Cirium, 180 airlines around the world ...
A United Airlines-operated Boeing 737-800 was missing an external panel when it landed in Medford, ... and the incident resulted in a temporary grounding of all U.S.-based 737 Max 9s, multiple ...
The grounding of the 737 Max 9 after a January 5 incident that blew a hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines plane earlier this month will cost the airline about $150 million, Alaska announced ...
As non-U.S. countries and airlines began grounding the 737 MAX, Boeing stated: "at this point, based on the information available, we do not have any basis to issue new guidance to operators." [40] Boeing said "in light of" the Ethiopian Airlines crash, the company would privatize [41] the roll-out ceremony for the first completed Boeing 777X. [42]
Two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in late 2018 and early 2019 that killed 346 people were tied to a design flaw in the plane and led to a 20-month grounding of Boeing’s best-selling model. It had ...