The Boeing company was in the eye of the cyclone after the crash of the plane in Ethiopia

ADIS ABABA, Ethiopia

Boeing was relegated to the honor yesterday after the crash of a 737 MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines company, which claimed the lives of 157 people and led several countries, including China, to immobilize the plane. one of the iconic models of the giant American Aerospace.

Meanwhile, the United States has ordered Boeing to modify the 737 MAX 8 and 737 MAX 9, including the MCAS control system, according to the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). The firm must comply with the request "by April at the latest," said the FAA, which decided not to immobilize the 737 MAX 8's fleet ashore, unlike the one established in Ethiopia, Indonesia, South Korea. South and China.

Boeing's shares sank on Wall Street early in the trading day, dragging the Dow Jones, the main index of the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, the company closed with a loss of 5.35% of its shares, a market capitalization of nearly 13,000 million euros.

For its part, the company Ethiopian Arlines announced the recovery of the two black boxes of the crashed plane, the one that records the technical data of the flight and the one that records the conversations inside the cabin. The black boxes should clarify the causes of the tragedy.

Sunday's crash – the plane that crashed a few minutes after takeoff between Addis Ababa (the Ethiopian capital) and Nairobi (Kenya) – is another setback for Boeing.

An aircraft of the same model, the modernized version of the 737, a commercial success, also crashed a few minutes after the takeoff on 29 October on the Indonesian coast, a tragedy that killed 189 people. One of the black boxes of the aircraft of the Indonesian airline Lion Air reported problems with the speedometer.

Different versions have mentioned as possible causes, failures in the training of crews in the use of computerized systems of the advanced aircraft, as well as communication and training problems provided by Boeing on these elements.

China has suspended flights of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 until it is "effectively guaranteed flight safety," reported the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration. So far, Boeing has delivered 76 copies of the 737 MAX 8 to Chinese airlines. The US company still has 104 orders for this country, which represents one-fifth of this model's global shipments. The US manufacturer has recorded a total of 5,011 orders for this device in the world. (AFP and TÉLAM)