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Boeing targets January return for 737 Max

Air
James Chapple
12 November 2019

Boeing hopes to resume deliveries of new 737 Max aircraft to airlines in December ahead of a return to commercial service in the New Year.

The 737 Max has been grounded for nearly two years

Boeing's 737 Max has been beset by a series of setbacks since its launch in 2016

The 737 Max has been grounded worldwide since mid-March following two fatal crashes involving the aircraft in just five months.


Lion Air flight 610 came down in the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta in October 2018. All 189 people onboard were killed. Then in March, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people onboard.


Initial investigations into both incidents found the same deep-seated flight control system to have been active when the two aircraft crashed.