• Australia joins Singapore in barring 737 Max planes
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47536502 Singapore and Australia's aviation authorities have temporarily banned Boeing 737 Max aircraft from flying into and out of their countries. The decision comes after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max 8 crashed on Sunday, killing 157 people on board. It was the second fatal accident involving that model in less than five months. No Australian airlines operate the Boeing 737 Max, and only two foreign airlines - SilkAir and Fiji Airways - fly the model into the country. Shane Carmody, who is in charge of aviation safety at Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority, said the suspension would remain in place while the organisation awaited "for more information to review the safety risks". South Korea has asked Eastar Jet, the only airline in the country to own Max 8s, to ground its planes from Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.
Without sounding morbid I genuinely look forward to all this being summed up in Aircrash Investigation in the future.
the UK has also banned the 737 Max from flying it its airspace https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-bans-all-boeing-737-max-8-aircraft-from-airspace-2019-3
Senators in the USA are starting to call on the FAA to ground them, as well
Has this happened before with previous models? This seems like a huge blow to Boeing.
It's incredibly common for all aircraft of a certain type to be grounded after a crash and before the investigation has concluded. They do this in case the crash was caused by a design flaw, no point risking more lives in a airframe that is potentially flawed.
787 Dreamliner models have been grounded in the US in 2013 due to operational problems
Its probably a good thing, in the past the FAA kept letting Boeing and others fly their planes with suspected issues that got people killed. Greed shouldn't override safety
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105468569800839169 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105471621672960000 https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/f5b7c1a5-319e-48c5-83fe-646542ad0e04/304973002779525122.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/229156/d09eaa04-d772-4b9b-9e96-4c63d0dc2adb/image.png Pictured a 727 engineering panel that needed a third person to be air worthy. They've become too complex
https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/press-releases/easa-suspends-all-boeing-737-max-operations-europe
says the man who seemingly has not used a computer in 40 years.
Someone get grandpa off twitter he's rambling about airplanes again
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