Almost a year after the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, the Canadian government has not held any kind of public hearing into the tragedy, or Canada’s approval of the plane
Chris Moore, father of an Ethiopian Airline crash victim, is photographed in his Toronto home on Jan. 6, 2020.There are three things Chris Moore can’t get out of his mind when it comes to the Boeing 737 Max.
Now, they want the federal government to hold a public hearing into the 737 Max, examining Transport Canada’s approval of the aircraft, its decision to keep it in the air after the plane first crashed in Indonesia in late 2018, and its delay in grounding the troubled aircraft after the second disaster this spring.
First introduced in 2017, The 737 Max has been grounded since March after 157 people died in the Ethiopian disaster, which happened just five months after the same model of plane crashed in Indonesia, killing 189. In both cases, a faulty sensor caused the aircraft’s computer system to force the plane into a nosedive. The Max had more casualties in its first two years than any other plane in history.
How Canada’s reliance on U.S. aviation policy kept regulators from seeing the fatal flaws in Boeing’s 737 Max planes “It’s very important that we have a hearing here in Canada where Canadians can ask questions, and also can scrutinize the process that these authorities will be carrying out in the ungrounding of the 737 Max. Eventually a decision should be made whether this plane should ever fly again in Canada," Mr. Njoroge said.
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