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India monitoring Boeing 737 aircraft after China crash

Air
James Chapple
22 March 2022

India will closely monitor all the Boeing 737 aircraft operating in the country after one such jet crashed in China on Monday (21 March).

(Credit: Naveed Ahmed / Unsplash)

All 132 people onboard a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which came down in southern China en route from Kunming to Guangzhou, are feared dead.


The Boeing 737-800 is not one of the Max models that were grounded following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people and forced Boeing to make major changes to the aircraft’s software and its training.


India’s aviation regulator has put the 737-800 under "enhanced surveillance", the BBC reports, "to monitor flight procedures, air worthiness and operations".