China News Service, December 21. According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the 21st, Patrick Key, executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), said that he was "affirmed" that the Boeing 737 Max aircraft can now fly safely.
The agency has "doing its best" to evaluate the aircraft and analyze the manufacturer's design changes.
Data map: On December 9, local time, a Boeing 737MAX of Brazil’s Gol Airlines landed at Salgado Filho Airport in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The United States and Brazil have approved the 737 Max to fly again.
EASA is expected to allow it to resume services in Europe in mid-January 2021.
In October 2018 and March 2019, two Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 346 people in total.
After two air crashes, the Boeing 737 Max was banned from flying globally in March 2019.
Since then, EASA has conducted a comprehensive review of the design of the 737 Max aircraft independently of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US regulatory agency.
Patrick said that the review is not limited to the direct causes of the two accidents and Boeing's proposed amendments.
He explained: "We further inspected all flight control systems and all mechanical equipment of the aircraft."
According to reports, EASA requires that in order to resume service, the existing 737 Max aircraft must now install new computer software and replace the wiring and cockpit instruments.
Pilots will need to undergo mandatory training, and each aircraft must undergo a test flight to ensure that these measures are implemented correctly.