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There are already 25 airlines that have preemptively suspended the flights operated by the Boeing 737 MAX 8 after the accident in Ethiopia, where 157 people died. To this decision was added the decision of the United Kingdom, France and Germany to prohibit these aircraft from flying over their airspace. Doubts about the new model of the American company appeared because of the similarity of the recent incident that occurred with another incident in October in Indonesia, on a flight of the same model but the company Lion Air. In either case, the aircraft lost contact with the control a few minutes after takeoff and crashed.

Yesterday, Aerolíneas Argentinas, who owns five MAX 8s, has finally decided to leave them on the ground until they have more information. He did so after the protest of the pilots who refused to fly them until the conditions of safety were guaranteed.

The first companies to remove it from the traffic were the airlines affected by the accident, Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air. The Civil Aviation Administration of China then decided to suspend all operations of this model in domestic enterprises until "confirmation of the relevant measures to ensure flight safety". The aeronautical authorities of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Australia and Singapore have done the same.

In Latin America, in addition to the Aerolíneas Argentinas group, the companies that decided to leave the MAX 8 fleet on the ground were the Brazilian GOL, which has seven aircraft, and the Aeroméxico group, with six people. "The decision is subject to technical reports on the event featuring such an Ethiopian Airlines plane, and this was taken after joint badysis with ANAC, the airline sector regulator. of the country, "reported the Argentine flag carrier.

Companies that have not yet canceled their flights with this model include Southwest Airlines, which has 34 MAX 8 aircraft; Air Canada, with 24 operational flights; American Airlines, also with 24 planes; Norweigian Air, who is 18 years old; Turkish Airlines, with 11; and Smartwings, with 7, among others.

On Sunday, Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX 8 lost contact with the control six minutes after taking off and crashed near the town of Tulu Fara, outside the town of Bishoftu, about 60 kilometers away. south-east of Addis Ababa. . According to company administrators, the pilot reported difficulties and asked to return. There were 157 people in the plane and there were no survivors. Last October, an equivalent of the company Lion Air crashed a few minutes after takeoff in Jakarta (Indonesia) and the 189 people on board died.

Which airlines canceled their flights

• Aerolineas Argentinas
• Aeromexico
• Air China
• Cayman Airways
• China Eastern Airlines
• China Southern Airlines
• Comair
• Eastar Jet
• Ethiopian Airlines
• Fuzhou Airlines
• Garuda Indonesia
• GOL Airlines
• Hainan Airlines
• Kunming Airlines
• Lion Air
• Lucky air
• MIAT Mongolian Airlines
• Okay Airways
• Royal Air Morocco
• Shandong Airlines
• Shanghai Airlines
• Shenzhen Airlines
• SilkAir
• Xiamen Airlines
• 9 Air