The Boeing 737 MAX Series was announced in 2011 and was introduced in May 2017. A Max 8 jet operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia in 2018, and an Ethiopian Airlines Max 8 crashed in 2019. 16 hours ago · This is not the first incident involving the Boeing 737 Max, the fourth generation of Boeing's 737 aircraft. The aftermath of fatal accidents with the Max 8 also affected a few Sky Harbor flights.
3 days ago · Passengers flying from Portland aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 on Friday experienced a terrifying ordeal — minutes after takeoff, a large, rectangular chunk of the fuselage blew
Would you fly on a 737 MAX in the next year, assuming the airline, fare, and schedule are acceptable? he asked. Of the 651 respondents to his poll, 53.6% said ‘yes’, 37.3% said ‘no’, and the remaining 9.1% ticked the box for ‘I don’t know’. Like Ostrower, Harteveldt’s Twitter following includes aviation enthusiasts and tech 737 Max-8, Safe or Not? March 18, 2019 Aviation Safety, Common Sense. I was recently asked by an individual (who is a military trained aviator by the way) if I thought it was safe to fly in a Boeing 737 Max-8, considering the current situation of recent fatal accidents and mandatory groundings. My answer might surprise you. I said: “Yes and
Boeing insists the aircraft is both safe and reliable. On 14 October, a 737 Max took off from Boeing Field airport in Seattle, bound for Brussels. It was a delivery flight, taking the brand-new
5 days ago · The Alaska Airlines 737-9 Max jetliner blew out a window and a portion of its fuselage shortly after takeoff nearly five kilometres above Oregon late Friday, creating a gaping hole that forced the
The Boeing 737 MAX is back, but not everyone is thrilled. Twenty months after the it was first grounded following two fatal accidents, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared the
The aircraft is the second new Boeing 737 MAX 8 to go down in recent months, following the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in October, which killed 189 people. “A brand new aircraft … having repeated fatal crashes would put a big question mark on this aircraft,” Bijan Vasigh, a professor of economics and finance at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
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