Nearly three years after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 outside Addis Ababa killed all 157 on board, the airline marked the jet’s imminent resumption of service with a four-hour demonstration flight from the Ethiopian capital on Tuesday. Flight ET9301 carried 50 passengers, including Ethiopian Airlines senior managers and board members, the general director of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA), representatives from Boeing and GE Aviation, and members of the press. Ethiopian Airlines had ordered 30 Max 8s and taken delivery of five when the March 9 accident occurred. Hailemariam further noted that the pilots can now override the MCAS system and that, once they do that, it cannot re-engage. Right now, almost all our Max pilots are trained.

Source: Ethiopian News February 03, 2022 02:56 UTC