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Last week, Ethiopian Airlines made headlines for all the right reasons: it opened the world’s first contactless airport terminal and the US Congress vindicated the airline regarding flight ET 302 that crashed shortly after. of the takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019 killing all 157 on board. . (Photo: ANA)
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Ethiopian Airlines (ET) made another notable headline last week. It opened the world’s first contactless airport terminal, which was completed during the pandemic when airlines were shutting down operations.
The $ 300 million project (approximately R5 billion) is part of Terminal 2 of the larger Bole International Airport project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This headline coincided with another landmark announcement involving ET. The US Congress vindicated ET in a way no one imagined, especially Boeing, the US maker of the four-month-old 737-MAX 8 plane that crashed on March 10 last year outside Addis Ababa. .
What made the crash of Flight ET 302 spectacular was not just the death of some 150 passengers and crew, but the arrogance with which Boeing initially handled everything.
Rather than wait for an investigation, the company scornfully said, “Safety is Boeing’s number one priority and we have every confidence in the safety of the 737 MAX.”
Although the accident was the second to involve the 737 MAX 8 in less than five months, the other being Lion Air Flight 610 from October 2018 in Indonesia, Boeing, a $ 101 billion Fortune 500 company, showed disdain and insensitivity to African life, by shunning responsibility.
Now the United States Congress has discovered that the reason for the accident had nothing to do with the pilot or ET management. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee says: “The facts in this report document a disturbing pattern of technical miscalculations and troubling management misjudgments made by Boeing. It also illuminates numerous oversight lapses and loopholes of responsibility by the FAA that played a significant role in the… accidents. ”
The report praised ET for having “flourished in the past two decades as it has capitalized on a strategy to connect primary and secondary markets across the African continent with destinations in North America, Europe and Asia,” adding that its ” pilot training programs and facilities have garnered praise from seasoned US pilots. “
As Boeing prepares to return some 700 of its 737s to the skies in the gradual reopening of international air travel, it will do so while eating a humble pie. Hopefully, you’ve learned to properly respect ET, one of your top customers.
The conclusion is that the 737 MAX 8 had a technical failure due to the design of the aircraft. The design improvement was intended to make the aircraft travel longer distances and carry more passengers. The new larger shape of the 737 MAX 8 moved the aircraft’s engine forward, without any major redesign of the 737’s fuselage, which has apparently not changed in five decades.
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