According to the report issued on Tuesday, Boeing did report some orders for the other jets in late March, even in the wake of the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet and the grounding of the 737 MAX that followed, reports CNN.
American Airlines has extended the cancellations of its Boeing 737 Max flights until August 19 due to the indefinite global grounding of the plane model
The lawsuit says Boeing failed to warn the public, airlines and pilots of the airplane's allegedly erroneous sensors, causing the aircraft to dive automatically and uncontrollably.
There is little doubt that two crashes of Indonesian and Ethiopian Airlines have raised the stakes for the manufacturer too high to be ignored and too delicate to be delayed. Since Boeing Max has been grounded all over the world, the first priority is to find the root cause of the accidents. Without that, all talk and action would be pre-mature. Accident investigation reports are of supreme importance. Second, Boeing has to ensure that every action linked to the defect of the machine, if any, must be brought to the public domain and any failure to do so will result in passenger’s erosion of minimum confidence in the Max aircraft.
Identifying the cause of the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people and caused the worldwide grounding of a brand-new Boeing aircraft model will take "considerable time," an Ethiopian government minister has said.
Boeing says it has been developing the software enhancement for several months, and in the aftermath of the Lion Air flight JT610 crash in October 2018
The deadly plane crash in Ethiopia that left 157 people dead has raised questions about Boeing’s new 737 MAX aircraft. It was the second new Boeing 737 Max to crash in four months.
The Boeing 737-800MAX aircraft carrying 149 passengers and 8 crew members crashed in Bishoftu.
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800MAX which took off from capital Addis Ababa at 8.38 pm local time (11.08 am IST) crashed on Sunday, the airlines said in a statement.
