UK Closes Airspace to Boeing’s Latest Jet
Photo Credit: A Boeing 737 Max. The UK's CAA has banned the aircraft from arriving, departing or overflying UK airspace. Boeing
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This is another serious blow for Boeing. We'll have to wait until investigators have analyzed the flight data recorders before we can get a full picture of what happened to Flight 302.
The UK’s aviation regulator has banned any Boeing 737 Max aircraft from arriving, departing, or overflying UK airspace following last Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash.
The decision is another blow for manufacturer Boeing and comes after similar bans in other part of the world.
"The UK Civil Aviation Authority has been closely monitoring the situation, however, as we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator arriving, depa
