Europe’s aviation safety agency has set out strict conditions before it will allow Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft back into the skies, in a sign of the depth of the rift emerging among regulators after two deadly crashes.
EASA has told US regulator the Federal Aviation Authority and Boeing that it has three “pre-requisite conditions”, including demands that design changes for the plane be approved by the European agency, before it will lift the grounding of the Max.
Indonesia, site of the first accident last October when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea, has also heaped pressure on the FAA by revealing that it was considering seeking a second assessment of the US regulator’s review of Boeing’s software update.