Australia lifts ban on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft 2 minutes read
Sydney, Australia, Feb 26 (efe-epa).- Australia announced Friday that it was lifting the ban on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operating to and from the country imposed two years ago following deadly crashes involving the plane in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019 respectively, which killed 346 people.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA) said that its decision comes after the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) deemed the aircraft safe to fly again.
“We have accepted the comprehensive return-to-service requirements specified by the FAA as State of Design for the 737 MAX and are confident that the aircraft are safe,” CASA’s Acting CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, Graeme Crawford said in a statement.
A black box from an Indonesian jet which crashed minutes after take-off last week has confirmed that both engines were working when it smashed into the sea.
Divers hoisted the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Sriwijaya Air plane from the seabed and downloaded the data in hopes of solving the mystery surrounding the cause of the crash.
The data successfully downloaded from the FDR confirmed that both of the 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 s engines had been operating when it hit the water, according to Indonesia s National Transport Safety Committee (KNKT).
News that the plane s engines were both working means the cause remains unknown - though investigators revealed on Friday that they had recovered the plane s second black box, the cockpit voice recorder.
Red Cross workers pictured spraying body bags, Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
A reported 36 body bags have been recovered from the wreckage of flight SJ182
It plunged 10,000ft into the Java Sea within four minutes of takeoff from Jakarta
Officials said that divers had resumed their search for the remaining victims
Funeral for one of the victims - Okky Bisma, a flight attendant - held on Thursday
The Boeing 737 s flight data recorder was found on Tuesday with authorities in Indonesia saying it will take two to five days to extract the information from it.