Now Canada Grounds 737 Max 8

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN


Canada Minister of Transport Marc Garneau just announced that as the result of new data that they received this morning, they will no longer allow Boeing 737 Max 8 or 9 aircraft to take off and land or fly over Canadian airspace.

Flightradar24 tweeted a map showing at least six aircraft currently flying in Canada at the moment:




Read more: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/boeing-737-max-8-ethiopia-airlines-crash/index.html

[sandensea]

1. But not Cheeto's FAA

Too busy collecting bribes from Boeing no doubt.

And besides: he never has worry about stalling planes.

[Stuart G]

2. I think we are one of 2 countries allowing these things to fly..(other is Panama) nt

[sandensea]

4. There's a 3rd: Trump's buddy Macri in Argentina has also refused to ground the five MAX8s there

But pilots for the national airline, which owns all five, have announced they're refusing to fly them.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=wT&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pagina12.com.ar%2F180169-tras-la-presion-de-los-pilotos-aerolineas-paro-los-boeing-73

Sometimes you just have to put your foot down.

[Ghost Dog]

8. Argentina still has some strong unions.

Good to see.

[sandensea]

10. +1

That's precisely why the pilots there were able to put their foot down: they're unionized.

Macri would have fired them all three years ago but for that.

Instead, he's been undercutting them by authorizing a gaggle of new budget airlines - most of them fly-by-night outfits with old, undermaintained planes.

One was run by Colombia's Avianca, which was given domestic routes after buying the Macri family's failed charter airline, MacAir, in 2016. They recently ceased operations.

But the worst is probably FlyBondi - which sells tickets at one fourth the going market rate despite claiming in their permit affidavits to have entered the market with almost no capital (i.e. a laundromat).

They average two recorded safety incidents daily. Argentine Pilots Association considers FlyBondi a tragedy waiting to happen.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/110861938

[Ghost Dog]

11. +1 Thanks for the extra info! n/t

[sandensea]

12. De nada, Ghost Dog!

God forbid.

[matt819]

3. Well, that should be interesting

I would think (though maybe I'm wrong) that a fair number of US aircraft make their way into Canadian airspace routinely.

And I can only imagine the uproar - and spin - if an American 737 Max 8 were to crash in the US.

[PoliticAverse]

5. So they won't allow the ones currently in the air to land?... n/t

[DrToast]

6. This is doing damage to the credibility of the FAA

[irisblue]

9. But wait, there is more...

https://ktla.com/2019/03/13/wsj-software-fix-to-boeing-737-max-8-planes-delayed-in-part-by-government-shutdown/

snip--
US officials say the recent government shutdown played a part in the delay of Boeing’s software update for its 737 Max aircraft, which has been grounded by airlines and countries after two deadly accidents in the past five months, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Boeing announced Monday it had been working on a software fix for the 737 Max aircraft over “the past several months and in the aftermath” of Lion Air Flight 610 that went down in late October over the Java Sea off Indonesia, killing 189 passengers. The process was underway before the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash over the weekend, which killed 157 people and also involved a 737 Max. Both flights crashed minutes into their journeys.


Much more at article.