Ethiopian Airlines is set to operate the Boeing 737 MAX for the first time since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft. Flight 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi plunged six minutes after takeoff into a field southeast of the Ethiopian capital in March 2019, five months after a similar crash in Indonesia left 189 people dead.
The twin disasters and subsequent scrutiny of the 737 MAX’s faulty flight handling system — known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — amounted to the worst crisis in Boeing’s history.
State-owned Ethiopian Airlines, the jewel of the economy of Africa’s second most populous country, had long said it would be the last carrier to use the single-aisle jets again.
There were pilots who were close to the people who lost their lives in the accident, and it’s really hard to say if everyone has moved past that experience,” he said. But I believe it’s a reasonable time for most of us to move past that experience. The victims of the Flight 302 crash, the worst in Ethiopia’s history, hailed from more than 30 countries.
Source: eNCA
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A deep throat, who did not want to be named for fear of victimization, said the former DJ’s girlfriend was angry with Leope after the bank’s lawyers sent her a letter in October last year demanding that she pays. Learn more
