Uruguay also banned the operation of aircraft Boeing 737 MAX

The Commander-in-Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force, Hugo Marenco, Said Monday that Uruguay has "banned" on its territory the Boeing 737 MAX 8 operationwho played in two grim deaths in six months.

"The National Directorate of Civil Aviation and Aeronautical Infrastructure, in accordance with what other countries in the region and the world have done, has banned the operation of these aircraft on our territory", told reporters Marenco.

The expert also announced that this measure would extend the time required for Boeing – the largest aerospace company in the world and the largest US exporter – "solve these problems".

"For the tranquility of the population and users, no business of this type of device currently works in our country", stressed the army and explained that the 737 MAX aircraft received by Uruguay "are few in number".

This country is not the only one to have taken this step because after the March 10 incident in Ethiopia, in which 157 people died, and the similarities with last October in Indonesia, where 189 people died, regulators The United States, the European Union, China, Turkey, Australia, Mexico and South Africa, among many other countries, suspended the flights of these planes.

The commander made these statements to the press as part of the celebration of the 106th anniversary of the military aviation and Uruguayan air force day, which was attended by the president of the l & # 39; Uruguay. Tabaré Vázquez.

Marenco also pointed out that the Air Force calls for a "renewal of badets," a plan that he says is "long-term" and that will require "a lot of effort," so that "probably" will not be "crystallized". in his order.

"What we want is to modernize our fleet, homogenize it, try to reduce the antiquity." The operational positions of old planes, like the ones we have, are getting more and more more expensive and it is more difficult to get spare parts, "he added.