Originally Posted by
atakacs
Does anyone know if the EASA notice is based on some new input (presumably from early readout of Ethiopian FDR) ?
If not I think this is draconian and frankly unwarranted - they could at the very least allow en-route flights to operate normally as the issue - if there is actually one - is in the takeoff phase.
We don't know what caused the crash of the Ethiopian plane. So how can you know for a fact that whatever issue possibly is at play, only exists in the take-off phase? Perhaps it is a failure mode that can pop-up in any phase and turn a 737 MAX into an impact crater for CEOs to rummage through. We simply don't know, so safety should be the main priority here.