Breaking: Britain bans Boeing 737 Max from its airspace as China, Australia and other nations ground the jets after deadly crashes
By Gerry Shih Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email Bio Follow March 12 at 8:59 AM BEIJING — When China became the first country on Monday to order all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes grounded in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, its aviation regulator sent an unmistakable signal: the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is no longer the only authority in civil aviation worldwide.
China’s move, which was unprecedented for a government that once took cues from the FAA, was motivated by what Chinese officials and pilots said was months of equivocation from U.S. officials and Boeing in response to safety inquiries from China after the crash of a 737 Max 8 in Indonesia last October.
A top official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China said Monday that the Chinese asked their counterparts at the FAA as well as Boeing about piloting software and safety issues of the popular new airliner model ever since a Lion Air Flight 610 plunged into the sea off Indonesia in October, but have not received satisfactory answers.
Experts widely caution that investigators have not drawn parallel links with the Lion Air crash, and China’s move to immediately ground its entire fleet before the Ethiopian investigation had barely started diverged from industry and regulatory norms. “It’s not hard to be ahead of the FAA,” Hansford said. “If this had been an Airbus plane, the FAA would’ve been all over it.”
He added that “all Boeing has promised is to update the M.C.A.S. system, and even that small move came a little too late.”
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