Almost three years after the fatal crash of one of its Boeing MAX 8s, Ethiopian Airlines plans to bring the aircraft back into service from February 2022. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Tewolde GebreMariam, the airline is now confident of the safety of the Boeing MAX 8 fleet. GebreMariam went to the crash site near the village of Ejere and just found a deep crater and debris where the airline’s MAX 8, which was delivered in November 2018, had crashed. GebreMariam acknowledged this problem in his statement, saying “Ethiopian Airlines has put in place rigorous and comprehensive processes to ensure that every plane in the sky is safe. Lion Air and Garuda are the only airlines with MAX aircraft in Indonesia.

Source: Ethiopian News December 28, 2021 00:43 UTC