Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8, leaving US as last major user of plane
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Canada said Wednesday that it is grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes over safety concerns arising from the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight earlier this week.
The news leaves the United States and its carriers as the last major users of the aircraft.
Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau said he issued what he calls a “safety notice” after new data was reviewed Wednesday morning. Garneau said the new information reviewed
Wednesday is satellite tracking data that is collected when an aircraft takes off, which he says provides a vertical profile.
His experts looked at this data and compared it to that of the Lion Air crash in October, which involved the same type of craft, and found similarities that “exceed a certain threshold in
our minds” with the possibilities of what happened in Ethiopia. Garneau said the safety notice halts Boeing 737 MAX aircraft from arriving, departing or using Canadian airspace,
effective immediately.
After China grounded the plane on Monday, most countries followed suit, including much of Europe. The latest bans were issued by India, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Hong Kong.
Boeing CEO allegedly called the White House to stop the planes from being grounded
How hard can it be to disable the anti-stalling feature? AFAIK the pilots already have a switch to override it, so it probably shouldn't take too long for them to be up and flying again.
Boeing's saying the government shutdown delayed the fix
Well, look at that
So does that mean Trump is indirectly responsible for the 157 lives lost as a result of the crash?
Probably one in many missteps that lead to this stuff, yes.
It's usually a perfect storm of circumstances that lead to plane crashes
Straightforward safety upgrades to the jets’ software to fix the automated safety feature, were originally expected in January according to multiple reports. But they were delayed until April, the Wall Street Journal
reported Feb. 10, because of “engineering challenges,” “differences of opinion” between federal and Boeing officials, and the 35-day government shutdown, during which “consideration of the fixes was suspended.”
I had it a bit wrong
The only Russian airline which is using 737 Max has decided to voluntary stop using them until the problem has been solved too.