The showdown took place Tuesday after the aircraft, which was carrying only a pilot and first officer, departed from Spain’s Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport and approached German airspace. "Just before entering German airspace both the German and French authorities sent a notice that prohibited repositioning flights of the Boeing 737 Max in their airspace," Norwegian Air said in a statement. They added that those details were passed on to Norwegian Air. However, there’s the rub, because, according to the Norwegian Air spokesperson, the airline was never handed that bit of necessary information. That crash came just five months after the October 2018 crash of a Lion Air 737 Max 8, which killed all 189 people onboard.

Source: Ethiopian News June 14, 2019 21:22 UTC