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Boeing, even the EU stops the 737 Max: only the US is resisting

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The EU's Air Transport Safety Agency has banned the flight of the model plane that crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, killing 157 people – Boeing in two days lost 11% in the stock market

Boeing, even the EU stops the 737 Max: only the US is resisting

Also European airspace is now closed to Boeing 737 Max. The EU's Air Transport Safety Agency decided on Tuesday evening. This is a precautionary measure after the Ethiopian Airlines disaster which cost the lives of 157 people last Sunday, including eight Italians.

The same announcement had previously been made by individual countries around the world: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, New Zealand, UAE, Fiji, Oman, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, China, Indonesia, South Korea and of course Ethiopia.

Among the few countries a have not yet banned the flight of this Boeing model there is the United States: “The analyzes conducted so far do not provide any basis for ordering the grounding of the 737 Max – reads a statement from the US Federal Aviation Administration – No other civil aviation authority has provided data that guarantees the need for action. If elements affecting the aircraft's ability to fly are identified, we will take appropriate action."

Meanwhile, Boeing has lost 11% in the last two trading sessions, burning $27 billion in capitalization. The company guarantees that the plane targeted by authorities around the world is safe, but at the same time announces that the autopilot software will be updated in the coming weeks.

While awaiting the answers provided by the recovered black boxes, this program is the main suspect both for Sunday's tragedy and for that of last October in Indonesia. Also in that case it was a Boeing 737 Max that crashed and the dynamics of the accident were very similar.

The same software also attracted the attention of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who in a post on Twitter criticized too much technology, responsible, according to him, for making jets too complicated by now: "More than pilots scientists would be needed”, commented the number one of the White House.

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