Boeing 737 MAX 8
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22:14, November 18, 2020
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday allowed the re-use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which were banned last March after two airline crashes of this model that claimed 346 lives.
The FAA stated that it had made this decision in consultation with aviation regulators around the world.
However, aircraft of this model will only be allowed to take off again once their computer software has been updated and the pilots have received appropriate training in flight simulators, according to an FAA order.
It has already been reported that both the Indonesian Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash in October 2018, which killed 189 people, and the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash in March 2019, in which 157 people lost their lives, the plane quickly began to fly down and landed. After the second disaster, regulators around the world banned liner flights of this model.
The disasters are thought to be due to the automatic system used in the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and Boeing 737 MAX 9 to help pilots avoid raising the bow dangerously high, but under unusual circumstances the system could suddenly push the bow down and so strongly that the pilots were no longer able to lift it back.
The recertification process has eliminated both this and other technical failures that were found for the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Problems with the 737 MAX have severely damaged Boeing’s reputation and caused great financial loss to the company.
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