The American company Boeing considers China an important market (French)
The first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft delivered to China since 2019 landed today, Saturday, at Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, according to the “Flight Radar 24” aircraft tracking website.
The plane, a 737 Max 8 belonging to China Southern Airlines, landed at 10:23 am local time (0223 GMT), according to what the French press reported.
The American company Boeing considers China an important market.
The 737 MAX was grounded in China after two fatal accidents in October 2018 and March 2019, leading to its worldwide grounding.
The American company is facing increasing scrutiny of its quality practices, especially after a near-catastrophic accident involving an Alaska Airlines plane this month.
This plane made an emergency landing after a panel separated from its body, exposing passengers to the air, which necessitated an emergency landing.
A person found the board, which is used to fill the gap in an emergency exit located in the middle part of the plane, in the garden of his home in Portland, Oregon.
No one was injured in the accident, but safety inspectors said it could have been catastrophic.
Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX 9 was forced to land after a gap was detected in the plane's fuselage (Reuters)
Most notable Boeing MAX accidents
MAX aircraft officially entered service in 2017, and these are the most notable accidents:
2024
On January 5, Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, hours after a rear part of the plane exploded, the emergency door plug of one of the planes broke off, and it was forced to make an emergency landing.
2023
Last December, Boeing issued instructions to all its customers to inspect its 737 MAX aircraft for a possible loose screw in it.
The story began after periodic maintenance conducted by an international airline, which discovered a missing nut in the screw that connected the rudder control system during flight.
2019
On March 10, 2019, the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max plane crashed minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with 149 passengers on board, all of whom died.
In the same month, aviation authorities and sector companies in most parts of the world announced that Boeing 737 MAX aircraft were required to remain on the ground after two crashes of that type, and the ban continued until the end of 2021.
2018
In October 2018, a Lion Air plane of the same type crashed into the sea near Indonesia, carrying approximately 190 people, none of whom survived, according to local authorities.
The results of the investigation indicated that the anti-stall system led to the nose of the plane lowering, despite the efforts of the pilots to correct this.
Source: Agencies