United States (US) investigators believe someone in the cockpit deliberately crashed a China Eastern flight that suddenly plunged to the ground in southern China in March, the Wall Street Journal has reported.The Boeing 737-800 was on its way from Kunming to Guangzhou on 21 March when it dropped from its cruising altitude of 29,000 feet into a mountainside, killing all 132 people on board.
A design flaw, inadequate pilot training and poor flight crew performance contributed to a Boeing jet crashing in Indonesia last year, killing all 189 people on board, investigators said Friday, in what one aviation analyst called a "damning" report.The Lion Air disaster was followed months later by a second crash – involving the same model of aircraft – when an Ethiopian Airlines plane went down with 157 people aboard, leading to the global grounding of Boeing's entire 737 MAX
Indonesia's national carrier Garuda has told Boeing it will cancel a multi-billion-dollar order for 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets after the model was involved in two fatal crashes.The move could spark more cancellations from other major carriers, an aviation analyst said, as Boeing and United States (US) federal regulators get set to face their first public grilling by Congress since the deadly incidents."We have sent a letter to Boeing requesting that the order be cancelled," Garud
The European Union (EU) closed its airspace to Boeing 737 MAX planes on Tuesday, joining similar action by nations across the globe following a second deadly accident in just five months.Fleets of the best-selling workhorse plane were also grounded by airlines as safety concerns swirled, sending Boeing shares tumbling another seven percent in Tuesday trading and wiping billions more off its market value.On Sunday, a new Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into a flight from Addis A
For the second time in less than six months, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has crashed minutes after take-off and killed everyone on board, raising fresh questions about the safety of a model that is crucial to the United States (US) giant's future plans.On Sunday, the 157 passengers and crew members of a 737 MAX operated by Ethiopian Airlines were killed.
