A commercial airliner successfully completed a flight from Miami to New York City today, taking off at 10:30 a.m. EST and landing at LaGuardia at 1:10 p.m. It was the first 737 MAX passenger flight in the U.S. in almost two years.
MIAMI – American Airlines (AA), the largest airline, resumed flying the Boeing 737 MAX today after the plane had been grounded for 20 months.
The aircraft, which was re-certified last month, has returned to fly to the US with AA. Brazil’s GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes and then Aeromexico (AM) were the first carriers to reintroduce Boeing’s jet.
American Airlines Boeing 737MAX
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Flight Information
The AA Boeing 737 MAX 8, registered as N314RH, made its first flight on April 21, 2018: the aircraft is 2.7 years old. It is back in service today, carrying 100 passengers plus crew, flying from Miami International Airport (MIA) to New York LaGuardia (LGA), departing MIA around 3.44pm local time.
Boeing 737 MAX nails first passenger flight in US after long ban
The Boeing 737 MAX has returned to commercial service in the US with a flight that took place through American Airlines. The trip, which included AA’s President Robert Isom as one of the passengers, went from Miami to New York, the route that will be used for daily flights as American Airlines eases the airliner back into service.
The Boeing 737 Max has had a rocky history in the nearly two years since two deadly crashes that claimed 346 lives, resulting in the planes being grounded. Months of work and repeated delays led up to the FAA rescinding its Emergency Order of Prohibition applied to the 737 MAX jets last month.
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