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The Brazilian aviation regulator ANAC lifted the Boeing 737 MAX ban on Wednesday after the United States authorized the flight of the planes.
On Tuesday, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) established the conditions for putting the planes back into service on the ground, including a new training and update of the MCAS software implicated in the accidents.
Brazil’s main regulator said Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, the only airline that operates the model in Brazil, is implementing the necessary measures to resume flights.
Gol said last week that it could resume flying the Boeing 737 MAX jets by the end of the year.
Some regulators have been waiting for EASA’s decision before lifting their own measures, as Boeing’s 20-month security crisis tested confidence in American aviation leadership.
The Brazilian regulator would apply the conditions of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, for its acronym in English) of the United States to return the MAX to service and minimized the differences between the regulators.
The EASA differed from the FAA in saying that pilots could stop the vibration of a “vibrating” alarm if it was accidentally activated, stopping a distraction that was thought to have compounded the problems for the two crews when handling the fatal flights.
It also issued a temporary restriction on the use of autopilot, unlike the United States.
EASA represents the 27 European Union countries plus four other nations, including Norway, which has 92 of the aircraft ordered. Until December 31, EASA also represents Great Britain, which left the EU bloc in January.
Canada is also expected to lift the ban, but uncertainty persists over China, the largest market for the jet and the first to ban it in March 2019.
US flights will resume on December 29, while formal take-off in Europe will take place from mid-January.
