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| Crash-afflicted Boeing 737 MAX resumes passenger flights in US with take-off from Miami | |
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| An American Airlines flight from Miami, Florida on Tuesday marked the return of the troubled Boeing 737 MAX liner to US skies, after a 20-month ban was lifted by aviation safety regulators last month. | |
| Two Boeing 737 MAX planes crashed within six months of each other, in October 2018 and March 2019, killing hundreds of people and prompting the widespread grounding of the fleet. | |
| American Airlines Flight 718 left Miami at around 10:40am (Eastern Time) for New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The airline is the first in the US to return the 737 MAX to service – and only the third in the world, after Brazilian budget operator Gol Transportes Aereos and Mexico’s flag carrier, Aeromexico. | |
| It follows the US Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to lift a 20-month safety ban on the fleet on November 18, following Boeing’s changes to the aircraft’s flight control systems, which played a part in the crashes that killed 346 people. | |
| On October 29, 2018, a 737 MAX operated by Lion Air took off from Jakarta, Indonesia, before it crashed into the Java Sea 12 minutes later, killing all 189 on board. | |
| Around six months later, on March 10, 2019, a 737 MAX run by Ethiopian Airlines crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing each of the 157 people it was carrying. | |
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