The United Arab Emirates (UAE) believes that it is premature to set the date for the resumption of flights of the Boeing 737 MAX, the country's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th May, 2019) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) believes that it is premature to set the date for the resumption of flights of the Boeing 737 MAX, the country's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement on Thursday.The GCAA decided to ban the Boeing 737 MAX in the country's airspace after the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane on March 10.
"The GCAA is still in the process of seeking more technical information from the FAA [US Federal Aviation Administration] on the improvements being proposed. Therefore, GCAA won't be able to give a date of unbanning until it has enough information to ensure passengers safety is protected," the statement says, as quoted by the WAM news agency.
Two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft have crashed over the past months � one in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia in March. In the wake of the latest crash, aviation authorities and carriers around the world have either grounded all 737 MAX series aircraft or closed their airspace to them.
The investigations into the incidents are underway but experts believe that the MCAS system could be behind the crashes. MCAS commands automatically push down the jet's nose in case of a critical angle of attack. However, when the information coming from sensors is wrong, such actions of the security system may pose a danger to the plane as MCAS commands may overpower pilots' attempts to pull up the nose of the jet. According to investigators, pilots of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet needed more than four minutes to realize that incorrect data from sensors urged MCAS to push the nose down in a situation when there was no need in that.
