UK bans all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft from its airspace following Ethiopia Airlines crash

Rescue workers at Bishoftu, where Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on Sunday Image: Mulugeta Ayene via PA Images Rescue workers at Bishoftu, where Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on Sunday Image: Mulugeta Ayene via PA Images THE UK HAS banned the flying of any Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in its airspace, following the deadly Ethiopian plane crash at the weekend which killed 157 people.

One of those killed was 39-year-old Michael Ryan, a worker with Deputy Chief Engineer at the United Nations’ World Food Programme. “The UK Civil Aviation Authority has been closely monitoring the situation. However, as we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator arriving, departing or overflying UK airspace,” it said in a statement.

It said it had grounded its fleet of six remaining Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes pending analysis of the black box data.Similar movesThe Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said in a statement it was “temporarily suspending operation of all variants of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft into and out of Singapore in light of two fatal accidents involving Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in less than five months”.

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Australia grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 as concerns mountAustralia has suspended operations of all Boeing 737 Max aircraft following Singapore, Indonesia and China who have all grounded their fleets of the US plane maker's latest model after a second fatal crash in less than five months. Ryanair Hi, you haven’t mentioned once the fact that Ryanair have 135 of these on the order book 🤔 why is that not newsworthy? Have you sought a comment from them?
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