China Eastern resumes 737-800 service
From today's Wall Street Journal:
HONG KONG—China Eastern Airlines said it has resumed passenger flights of its Boeing 737-800 model aircraft after grounding the planes for nearly a month, following a crash of one of the planes that killed all 132 people on board.China Eastern said on Monday that while the airline’s Boeing 737-800 planes have resumed operations, it is still inspecting and conducting assessments on a batch of the 737-800 aircraft that were manufactured around the same time as the plane that had crashed.
China Eastern’s grounding of the planes was an emergency measure to run system tests on each of the 737-800 aircraft to examine airworthiness data, a representative from the airline said. The company is also conducting flight tests for 737-800 planes, the representative said.
The article notes the 737-MAX is still grounded in China.
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