Air safety experts say grounding the Boeing plane wouldn’t be justified without a clear and specific equipment or safety problem to pin it on.
By Faiz Siddiqui and Faiz Siddiqui Local reporter covering the D.C.
“The FAA continuously assesses and oversees the safety performance of U.S. commercial aircraft,” Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a conference call with reporters regarding President Trump’s budget. “If the FAA identifies an issue that affects safety, the department will take immediate and appropriate action.”
“I don’t think that we have concrete data to justify it at this point,” said John Cox, a former pilot and an airline-safety consultant with the Washington-based aviation-safety consulting firm Safety Operating Systems. “Grounding an airplane is a big step and so we want to take it very cautiously — only if there is justification for it.”
But the Civil Aviation Administration of China said the step was taken in “view of the fact that the two air crashes are newly delivered” 737 Max 8 planes, that both happened during takeoff and “they have certain similarities.” The government regulator said the decision reflected “zero tolerance” for safety risks.
Ethiopian Airlines is well-regarded in the aviation industry for its safety record. Its last major crash was in 2010, when all 90 people aboard an aircraft were killed when it caught fire and plunged into the Mediterranean after it took off from Beirut’s airport. Before that, its last major air safety incident was a 1996 hijacking that killed more than 100, one of the deadliest air hijackings up to that point.
Certainly, he said, the airplane being sold is no different from one country to the next. But he concurred with others who said the United States has capabilities for training and safety oversight that may factor into its decision not to ground the aircraft.
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