Opinion: China took the lead with the Boeing 737 Max. How did it beat the FAA?
A Boeing plant in Renton, Wash., in 2015. By John Pomfret John Pomfret Bio Follow March 25 at 3:50 PM China’s air safety authority was one of the first to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner after the recent devastating Ethiopian Airlines crash. Some have questioned the motivations of China’s Civil Aviation Administration. The Boeing plane is, after all, on a list of goods to be purchased should the United States and China agree to end their trade war.
The story of Chinese air travel begins in 1929 with the founding of the China National Aviation Corporation . American plane manufacturer Curtiss-Wright took shares in CNAC early on. CNAC began flying passengers from Shanghai up the Yangtze River to China’s then-capital of Nanjing and on to the industrial powerhouse of Wuhan, known then as China’s Pittsburgh.
In 1997, Chinese airlines began applying for approval from the FAA to fly from China to U.S. cities, opening up routes that today carry 23,000 people daily between the two countries, according to Bureau of Transportation statistics. U.S. officials asked for briefings on China’s flight safety protocol. What they discovered alarmed them.
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