After the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash on March 10, a few minutes after take-off, reactions are immediate in the aeronautics and aviation sector in general, but also among insurers.
The company bereaved by the death of the 155 passengers and crew decided to immobilize all of its B 737 MAX. For its part, Royal Air Maroc which had just received a similar device has just decided to send it for technical revision. This is the second time in a few months at the B737-800 Max experiencing such a disaster.
In October 2018, a similar aircraft of the Indonesian company Lion Air crashed off the Java Sea, killing 189 people. One of the black boxes of the aircraft had pointed out problems with speed indicators. For now, waiting for the black boxes of the Ethiopian plane, it is too early to speculate. The company’s 100% -owned CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam, said the survey will be conducted jointly with an American and Ethiopian team.
The American manufacturer sent his teams on the ground to unravel the mystery. For its part, the US agency responsible for air transport safety (NTSB) announced the dispatch of experts.
The relatively new aircraft was delivered in 2018 and normally followed the schedule of technical revisions. The pilot was experienced and had 8000 flight hours. At the end of January 2019, Boeing had delivered 350 new copies of its single-aisle Vi-Reactor, a revised version of its best-seller B737, to their buyers, on 5,000 orders. This is the stakes of the investigation.
