Canada has authorized more than 160 passengerless flights of the Boeing 737 MAX, although the plane has been theoretically grounded since March following two accidents that left several hundred people dead, CBC public broadcaster said on Monday. The Boeing 737 MAX, the star aircraft, is banned from flying after two close accidents, in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed a total of 346 people.
Canadian companies have continued to operate flights over the past 11 months, "sometimes several times a week," according to satellite data obtained by CBC. The flights have been authorized by the Canadian Department of Transport to "move the aircraft to various locations for maintenance and storage purposes, or to allow pilots-in-command to keep their training up to date," said the department. . "No passengers were on board" of these flights, he said.
The anti-stall system in question
"It's like being slapped," moved CBC Chris Moore, who lost his 24-year-old daughter in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, saying she died "because of this plane and however, they are preparing for the day when it will no longer be immobilized ”. After the Lion Air crash (189 dead) on October 29, 2018, that of the Ethiopian Airlines, on March 10, 2019, killed 157 people, including 18 Canadians.
This second accident had led Canada, following in the footsteps of many countries, to banish from its airspace the 737 MAX, the latest addition to the American manufacturer. The MCAS anti-stall system has been implicated in the two MAX tragedies, and Canada has indicated that it will conduct its own software patch assessment.
For ten months, the 737 MAX crisis has resulted in the dismissal of Boeing managing director Dennis Muilenburg and tarnished the reputation of the aircraft, stuck in a financial pit estimated at more than 9.2 billion dollars (8.3 billion d euros). The accidents with the 737 MAX led the manufacturer to temporarily suspend production and deliveries. At the end of January, the new owner of the aircraft manufacturer David Calhoun indicated that the production of the 737 MAX should be "restarted" before June.
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