The airline, thought to be the first company to stop an order for the Boeing 737 Max 8 since the crash, said that passengers had lost confidence in the aircraft APIndonesia’s national carrier has told Boeing it is cancelling a multibillion-dollar aircraft order, inflicting a major commercial blow after the model was involved in two fatal crashes in five months. Executives at Garuda have written to the company to request that its order of 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft be withdrawn, a spokesman said, explaining that too many safety concerns had arisen about the jets. Outrage has grown around the world since it was revealed that an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft that crashed on March 10 near Addis Ababa was apparently crippled by the same software malfunction that contributed to the disaster suffered by a Lion Air 737 in Indonesia in October. The crashes have been blamed at least in part on an automated tail…

Source: The Times March 22, 2019 09:11 UTC