What do we know about the crashes?ĭetails of the most recent crash are currently scant. The US Federal Aviation Administration has so far refused to ground the plane, despite pressure from workers’ unions and senators. Before the temporary ban there were five operational 737 Max planes flying in the UK, all belonging to travel company TUI. Shares in the company rose on March 13 on Wall Street despite the US order but were still down 10.6 percent since before the last crash.The CAA said its decision was a “precautionary measure”, and the result of “not currently having sufficient information from the flight data recorder”. Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has said it would demand financial compensation from Boeing as the implications of the mass grounding for the airline industry remained unclear. There are 74 of the planes registered in the United States, and 387 in use worldwide with 59 carriers, according to the FAA.
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The MAX series is Boeing's fastest-selling model. The European Union and major hubs such as the United Arab Emirates and Australia had already done so.Īmerican Airlines said it had 24 aircraft affected by the US ban, while Southwest Airlines said it was still confirming the move. The Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 was less than four months old when it went down six minutes into a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on Sunday, disintegrating on impact.įamilies of the victims from Kenya, China, the United States and Canada, as well as diplomatic staff from embassies, were visiting the crash site.Ī dozen airlines have grounded the plane, while Nigeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Serbia, Vietnam, New Zealand and Hong Kong on Wednesday also joined the list of countries to ban it from their airspace.
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In Ethiopia, distraught families wept and lit candles as they visited the deep black crater where the plane smashed into a field, killing 157 passengers and crew, an AFP correspondent said. "The fact the system was fighting the pilot was not an unintended consequence," because it should counteract a pilot error and correcting this is "challenging."
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"It is hard to get a system to work seamlessly with human beings," he told AFP. The Ethiopian Airlines pilots reported similar difficulties before their aircraft plunged into the ground as they tried to return to the airport.īoeing was criticized after the Lion Air crash for allegedly failing to adequately inform 737 pilots about the functioning of the stall prevention system.Įthiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam on March 10 said the captain on the flight, Yared Mulugeta Getachew, 29, was an experienced aviator with more than 8,000 flight hours.Īndrew Hunter, a defense industry expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that, while Boeing and the FAA had good track records on addressing safety concerns, sometimes the combination of automated systems and humans did not work smoothly. The accounts of the recent crashes were echoed in concerns registered by US pilots on how the MAX 8 behaves. The company continues its efforts "to understand the cause of the accidents in partnership with the investigators, deploy safety enhancements and help ensure this does not happen again," Muilenburg said in a statement.Įthiopian Airlines said on March 14 that the black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed have been flown to Paris for analysis.
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to warrant the grounding of the airplanes so we could get more information from the black boxes and determine if there's a link between the two, and if there is, find a fix to that link," Elwell said on CNBC.īoeing chief Dennis Muilenburg said he supported the US decision "out of an abundance of caution" but continued to have "full confidence" in the safety of the plane. The new information shows "the track of that airplane was close enough to the track of the Lion Air flight. FAA acting chief Daniel Elwell said the agency has been "working tirelessly" to find the cause of the accident but faced delays because the black box flight data recorders had been damaged.