machines of the type Boeing 737 Max 8 is no longer allowed to start in the UK, or land. Also Overflights are prohibited, said the British aviation authority. The German-British Tuifly is the plane on the ground.
After the crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Ethiopia, the UK has its air space for machines of this type closed. The British aviation authority announced that it had, as a precaution, all commercial flights of all Airlines that land in the United Kingdom, the country to skim.
The arrangement will be in force, it said. The authority stressed that it was in close contact with the European aviation safety EASA.
EASA itself has provided for the evening, an assessment of the Situation in view. A spokesman for the authority disagreed, however, rumors that a closure of European airspace is planned for the 737 Max 8.
doubt in China
Previously, several countries and Airlines had stopped, the Boeing 737 Max 8. Above all, China. The country is one of the most important customer for the Boeing sales hit and, in the face of the crash of a Lion Air flight in October in Indonesia, skeptical. The Chinese aviation authority CAAC pointed out in its explanatory Memorandum that there had been in two accidents “certain Similarities”. Both flights in good weather conditions shortly after the Start, in trouble. A possibly similar error in the electronics can not yet be excluded.
