More than two dozen airlines around the world have grounded their fleets of Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners after the second deadly crash of the type in less than five months. A number of countries have also banned the airplane from operating in their airspace as crash investigators work to determine what may have caused the nearly brand new Ethiopian Airlines jet to crash minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Airport on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
Countries Ban Boeing 737 Max 8 from their Airspace after Ethiopian Airlines Crash
Key Takeaways:
- Following a second fatal crash in five months involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 (Ethiopian Airlines), numerous airlines and countries globally have grounded the jetliner or banned it from their airspace.
- Investigators are focusing on the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), an anti-stall technology implicated in the earlier Lion Air crash for issuing faulty nose-down commands.
- Boeing is developing a flight control software upgrade for the MCAS system, partly in response to the previous crash, which is expected to be deployed in the coming weeks.
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