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Boeing aimed for 737 MAX to match the 99.7% dispatch reliability of the 737 Next Generation (NG). [66] Southwest Airlines, the launch customer, took delivery of its first 737 MAX on August 29, 2017. [67] Boeing planned to deliver at least 50 to 75 aircraft in 2017, 10–15% of the more than five hundred 737s to be delivered in the year. [61]
The Boeing 737 MAX was initially certified in 2017 by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Global regulators grounded the plane in 2019 following fatal crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
On 29 October 2018, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 operating the route, carrying 181 passengers and 8 crew members, crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 occupants on board. It was the first major accident and hull loss of a 737 MAX, a then recently introduced aircraft. It is the deadliest accident involving the Boeing 737.
This file photo shows a Boeing 737 Max 9 airplane performing a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show in 2017. - Michel Euler/AP ... In clearing the Boeing 737 Max 9 to fly following rigorous ...
This article lists the orders made by airlines and other buyers for the Boeing 737 MAX family of aircraft, which is a product of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a division of the Boeing Company. For a discussion of these orders and deliveries, in particular, the effect of the groundings in 2019, see Boeing 737 MAX, Orders and deliveries.
Boeing's 737 MAX 7 and 10 are delayed as the planemaker works to address an engine anti-ice system that could lead to it overheating and potentially causing an engine failure before the planes can ...
On May 15, 2013, Southwest became the launch customer for the Boeing 737 MAX 7. The first delivery was expected in 2019 but was delayed by the grounding of the 737 MAX. [19] On August 29, 2017, Southwest Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX 8, the first airline in North America to do so.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft. Kevin Carter/Getty Images. ... Homendy wrote that Boeing said it had received 353 affected actuator units since February 2017.