The low-cost airline Norwegian is the first in the fight with the US aircraft manufacturer. The company has 18 Boeing 737 Max 8. Meanwhile, more and more reports about major security flaws at the Jet come to light.
The crash of two brand-new machines of the type 737 Max 8 within five months could develop for Boeing to financial Disaster. As the first Airline in the low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle announced a Compensation claim. Norwegian has 18 machines of the type 737 Max 8. The airline will send Boeing “the bill,” said a company spokesman. Norwegian should not suffer financially because of a completely new aircraft could not fly. The financially troubled Airline had to cancel, therefore, this Wednesday 19 flights and the passengers to rebook.
A number of airlines will no longer use the Boeing for the time being, including Tuifly, Icelandair, Turkish Airlines, South African, Comair, Cayman Airways, the Brazilian Gol Airlines, Aeroméxico. The European Union and many other countries blocked their airspace for the 737 Max. Most recently, Canada, Turkey, Serbia, Egypt, new Zealand and Vietnam followed.
Criticism In the United States aviation authority
The US aviation authority FAA believes there is no more occasion for a temporary flight ban. For such a step, there is currently “no basis,” said FAA chief Daniel Elwell. The previous Review had uncovered no “systemic problems”. Other aviation authorities have given the US no data that would justify such an approach. In the US, there was criticism of the decision of the authority. The democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Ted Cruz demanded that the Boeing 737 Max 8 as a precaution, for the time being on the ground. The flight attendants ‘ Union of American Airlines is not called on its members to enter the machine, if you do not feel safe.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz to demand that the 737 Max 8 will remain in the United States on the ground
Also a review of the “Dallas Morning News“ does not Bode well. Accordingly, several U.S. pilots had been executed in the weeks before the disaster of Ethiopia raises serious concerns about the safety of the 737 Max 8. Five complaints, including the controversial control software MCAS, found the Reporter of the “Dallas Morning News“ in the “Aviation Safety Reporting System“. In this US national database of pilots, flight attendants and co. be able to report anonymously from the flight-between cases. All these complaints are based on Autopilot flights with the Boeing machine. Accordingly, the incidents passed all of them, as the machines tried to win after the Start to the amount. In the notes of the flying personnel (three pilots, two Co-pilots), the aircraft lowered its nose in the climb suddenly to the bottom. A Co-Pilot writes, the System only works when the Autopilot-mode has been turned off.
Manual of Boeing “almost criminally inadequate“
A captain explains in his complaint, the relatively new, extremely complicated MCAS System, which came only with the 737 Max series on the market. He writes that it was “unreasonable“ that it be a pilot is allowed to leave the Boeing 737 Max 8 without special Training and without further information on differences to older 737-fly models. The manual for the Boeing 737 Max 8 he is called “deficient and almost criminally inadequate.“
The Jet is only in may 2017.Worldwide, about 370 type machines to fly. Due to the low fuel consumption of the aircraft was not yet very popular. Around 100 Airlines have already ordered more than 5000 machines. On Sunday, a relatively new 737 Max 8 of Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after the Start. All 149 passengers and eight crew members were killed. In October such a machine, the Indonesian airline Lion Air, was killed in an accident shortly after the Start, 189 people died in the tragedy.
Examination of the flight recorder in Germany
The flight recorder of the in Ethiopia, crashed machine to be sent to Germany for analysis. This a spokesman of Ethiopian Airlines said. The so-called black boxes to record the voice communications in the Cockpit and all the flight data, so you could for the clarification of the cause of the disaster will be crucial. Usually the flight recorders are sent to a crash in the origin country, which in this case would be the USA. The decision for the Federal Republic of Germany could therefore be interpreted as a distrust of Boeing.
sti/qu (afp, dpa, rtr)