EDITORIAL: Comair stance on Boeing is valid
Critics wrong to demonise the company as US regulatory authorities have yet to rule on the safety of the Max 8 plane
Hindsight, they say, is a perfect science. That’s why it would be so easy, if wrong, to be critical of Comair’s initial decision not to ground its Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane after the crash that killed all 157 passengers and crew aboard an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet on Sunday. The critics probably felt vindicated on Tuesday when it emerged that Britain, Ireland, France, Norway, Belgium and Germany, as well as Australia and Singapore, had suspended the aircraft from their airports, joining China and Indonesia, the Cayman Islands and Ethiopia. Australia and Singapore went even further, banning planes from the whole Max fleet, while others had only targeted the Max 8 model, according to a report in the UK’s Guardian newspaper. A South Korean carrier suspended its 737 Max planes, while two airlines in South American did the same, Bloomberg reported. The suspensions put about a third of the global fleet of up to 350 planes out of action, the news agency reported. The model’s second ...
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