Australia lifts ban on Boeing 737 MAX jets

 Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority announced Friday that it has lifted the temporary ban on using Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

The authority had stopped the flight of this model of Boeing aircraft in Australian airspace, following two tragic accidents that killed 346 people.

The first accident occurred in Indonesia in October 2018, and the second in Ethiopia in March 2019.

Many countries in the world allowed Boeing 737 Max planes to fly again in November last year, following bans due to the two accidents.

The two accidents occurred as a result of a failure in the sensor of the flight control system, which would push the front of the plane down, as it was found that the pilots were not trained on how to stop this system automatically.

The new version of the aircraft control system will include data acquisition from two sensors.

The US Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency, and others have lifted the ban on using the 737 Boeing MAX aircraft

. Graeme Crawford, Acting Head of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Director of the Aviation Safety Division, said in a statement: “We have accepted the requirements for returning to universal service that they have set The Federal Aviation Administration for the 737 MAX is completely confident that the aircraft is safe.

There are no Australian airlines currently operating the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

Before the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which causes the disease (Covid-19), only the Singapore airline "Silk Air" and the airline "Fiji" were the only ones operating flights to Australia using this model from Boeing.

Crawford explained that "with the continued disruption of international air travel due to the Corona virus, there is currently no indication of when Singapore Airlines and Fiji Airlines will resume their flights to Australia."

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