SYDNEY, Feb.25 (Reuters) – Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority announced on Friday that it is allowing the Boeing 737 MAX BA.N to resume flights.
“We are convinced of the safety of planes,” said Graeme Crawford, head of the Australian agency.
The Australian regulator has accepted the return to service requirements set by the US FAA as a type certificate for the 737 MAX, he added.
Australia is the first country in Asia-Pacific to lift the two-year ban on the 737 MAX.
No Australian airline has 737 MAXs, but Fiji Airways and Singapore Airlines used these planes for their flights to Australia.
(Jamie Freed; French version Camille Raynaud)
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