Breaking: A passenger Boeing 737 is missing after losing contact with Indonesian authorities shortly after take off from Jakarta airport. 737 MAX OriginsAfter Boeing first flew the 737 prototype – the 737-100 – in 1979, the company started working on a major revamp of the 737, eventually producing the 737 Classic series. In 2001, Boeing announced the new family of aircraft – 737 MAX 7, 737 MAX 8, and 737 MAX 9 – building on the strengths of the Next-Generation 737. Lion Air CrashOn 29 October, 2018 at 6:20 a.m., Lion Air flight 610 took off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 737 Max UngroundingAmerican Airlines flew a Boeing 737 Max from Miami to New York on 29 December 2020 with paying passengers on board in the first commercial flight in almost 2 years after the grounding of the aircraft.

Source: Ethiopian News January 09, 2021 16:30 UTC