Canada gives green light for return of Boeing 737 Max planes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The Boeing 737 Max can return to Canadian airspace beginning on Wednesday&comma; officials said&comma; concluding nearly two years of government review after the aircraft was involved in two deadly crashes that saw the planes grounded worldwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Transport Canada said on Monday the planes will be permitted to fly as long as they meet conditions specified by Transport Canada in December&comma; including allowing pilots to disable a faulty warning system that was found to be central to two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Canadians and the airline industry can rest assured that Transport Canada has diligently addressed all safety issues prior to permitting this aircraft to return to service in Canadian airspace&comma;” the country’s transport minister Omar Alghabra said in a statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The measures go beyond those announced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in November&comma; which required Boeing to make changes to the computer systems inside the plane and required pilots to undergo training in flight simulators&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The planes have been grounded since March 2019 following the crashes of a Lion Air flight near Jakarta on October 29 2018&comma; and an Ethiopian Airlines flight on March 10 2019&comma; killing a total of 346 people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investigators determined that the cause of the crashes was a faulty computer system that pushed the plane’s nose downward in flight and could not be overridden by pilots&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Boeing admitted in court filings that two of its technical pilot experts deceived the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>FAA about a flight-control system called the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System&comma; or MCAS&comma; that could point a plane’s nose down if sensors indicated the plane might be in danger of an aerodynamic stall&comma; that it might fall from the sky&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The system was not part of previous 737 models&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MCAS was added because the Max’s larger engines&comma; which are mounted higher and farther forward on the 737’s low-swept wings&comma; gave the plane a tendency to tilt too far nose-up in some conditions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Boeing downplayed the significance of MCAS and did not mention it in airplane manuals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most pilots did not know about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed30ca6c609">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed30ca6c609'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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