Originally Posted by
4 Holer
Eddie,
I'll comment for you. Two have crashed one in Indonesia and one in Dark Africa both places are third world countries and crash aircraft on a regular basis.
Yanks are still flying them and don't get scared so easily, but yanks invented the aircraft and can fly stick and rudder in any case.
So the rest of the countries can sit and wring their hands rocking back and forward in a regular motion. How do the clowns now unground them ? " Oh a software update and a new pilot brief off you go " Follow the FAA and Manufacturer don't act with emotion deal with facts.
Would suit EU to ground anything not Airbus........
There must be hundred's of old (very old) B737,s aircraft flying in Dark Africa Indonesia and other "third world" countries and for many years - many years to eat away at the aircraft's safety standard by poor maintenance and parts.
So new ones crashing seems strange.
So one would expect they last a few year longer.
Ethiopian Airlines plane crashes
The following are
significant events involving the airline or its subsidiares. The numbered events are those involving at least one airline passenger death where the aircraft flight had a direct or indirect role, and where at least one of the dead passengers was not a stowaway, hijacker, or saboteur. Only events since 1970 are included.
10 September 1972; Ethiopian Airlines Douglas DC3; ET-ABQ; en route to Gondar, Ethiopia:
15 September 1988; Ethiopian Airlines 737-200; ET-AJA; flight 604; Bahar Dar, Ethiopia: Bird strike ingested into engines.
12 March 1993; Ethiopian Airlines ATR 42-300; Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: Hijackers.
23 November 1996; Ethiopian Airlines 767-200ER; near Moroni, Comoros Islands: Hijackers.
25 January 2010; Ethiopian Airlines 737-800; Flight 409; near Beirut, Lebanon: ?
12 July 2013; Ethiopian Airlines 787-8; ET-AOP; flight 1354; London Heathrow Airport: ELT caught fire on ground.
10 March 2019; Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8; ET-AVJ; flight ET302; near Ejere, Ethiopia:?