Comair grounds its own brand-new Boeing amid crash concerns | BISouthAfrica
after 157 people died in an Ethiopian Airlines crash. The same model was involved in a crash less than six months ago in Indonesia.
Comair owns the only Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane currently in operation in South Africa. The plane only started carrying passengers last week after arriving in the country at the end of last month.On Monday morning, the plane was used for an early flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and returned the afternoon on the same route. Its next flights were scheduled for Wednesday.
"While Comair has done extensive preparatory work prior to the introduction of the first 737 MAX into its fleet and remains confident in the inherent safety of the aircraft, it has decided temporarily not to schedule the aircraft while it consults with other operators, Boeing and technical experts," the company said.
According to international aviation regulations, the crash investigators have to produce an initial report within 30 days. But the initial report will not reveal the cause – just the lines of inquiries that are being followed, says Burns.
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