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Added on the 12/03/2019 19:00:49 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Passengers board the first Ethiopian Airlines flight on a Boeing 737 MAX since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft. IMAGES
Boeing's 737 MAX is set to return to the skies with a commercial flight in Brazil. Low-cost airline Gol's Flight 4104 from Sao Paulo to the southern city of Porto Alegre will see the revamped jet used in a first that Boeing hopes will turn the page on a badly damaging crisis in the wake of two deadly crashes crashes. IMAGES inside the aircraft
The Boeing 737 MAX takes off for a test flight from Dallas by American Airlines with members of the news media onboard, in an effort to reassure the public of the plane's safety after it was grounded for 20 months following two deadly crashes. US air safety officials in mid-November cleared the MAX to return to service following changes to the plane and pilot training protocols. IMAGES
France's Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) for civil aviation safety takes reception of the black boxes from the Boeing 737 Max plane which crashed in Ethiopia. The BEA is tasked with analysing the black boxes to discover the reason for the crash. IMAGES
A Silkair's Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft is grounded at Singapore airport as the country's aviation regulator bans the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the country's airspace following a deadly Ethiopia plane crash at the weekend. IMAGES
Delta Air Lines reportedly cancelled 325 flights in the days leading up to Christmas. Christmas was the busiest travel season of the pandemic. A perfect storm of bad weather and a lack of pilots forced Delta to cancel the flights over a three-day period starting December 23. Business Insider reports Thanksgiving similarly saw over 600 flight cancellations at the airline. The cancellations reveal a trend of poor performance for Delta during the holidays.