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UK CAA just grounded 737 Max, and not permitting overflight either. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-475365
by mhandley 8y ago
UK CAA just grounded 737 Max, and not permitting overflight either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502
"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, departing or overflying UK airspace"
- alexhutcheson 8y agoBanning overflight seems like a politically-motivated overreaction. Both incidents took place shortly after takeoff, and there's no current reason to believe the planes aren't safe at cruising altitude.
- avar 8y agoDublin airport in Ireland is about as far from UK territory as both of the 737 MAX's were from their respective airports when they crashed into the ground. It would be an unfortunate complication for the current discussion on a hard Brexit potentially happening within 3 weeks if the UK needed to work out what to do with an airplane strewn across that border on top of everything else.