Indonesia's state-owned airline Garuda has canceled a billion-dollar order for a Boeing 737 Max passenger aircraft.
The airline justified this on Friday with lost confidence after the crash of two identical aircraft with a total of more than 340 deaths in the past six months. One of the crashed aircraft belonged to the Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air, the other of the Ethiopian airline Ethiopian Airlines.
Garuda is the largest airline in the Southeast Asian country. The value of the now canceled order is listed at more than four billion euros . So far, Garuda has only one such machine of the US company Boeing
The Boeing 737 Max 8 of the competitor Lion Air had crashed into the sea on 29 October shortly after taking off in Indonesia's capital Jakarta. All 189 inmates were killed. The crash of an identical machine in Ethiopia killed 157 passengers and crew this month.
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After the two crashes of these new Boeing types within a short time applies to the exact clarification of the causes a start ban for the series 737 Max - all aircraft must remain on the ground. Initial analysis of data revealed that there might have been similarities in the crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines aircraft. In addition, there had been reports from pilots who had turned off any software in question at the last minute and could thus prevent worse.
After the two crashes, the approval of Boeing 737 Max by the US aviation authority FAA is now viewed with great suspicion. Above all, skepticism calls for the release of the controversial MCAS control software, which, according to accident investigators, played a crucial role in the crash in Indonesia and is also a possible cause of the recent crash in Ethiopia.
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