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American Airlines will resume Boeing 737 Max passenger flights today American Airlines is the first domestic carrier to resume flights with Boeing’s 737 Max after the plane was withdrawn from service more than a year ago. CNBC reports that the craft’s return to active duty begins with Flight 718, a roundtrip jaunt from Miami to New York. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/american-airlines-boeing-737-max-returns-to-the-skies-resumes-flight-faa-132043898.html

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is leaving the company a little more than one year after the first of two fatal crashes involving the company’s 737 Max aircraft, the company announced Monday. from https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/23/21035019/boeing-ceo-muilenburg-resigns-737-max-crisis-chairman https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65958981/1184444717.jpg.0.jpg

China moved first. Indonesia followed. Then Singapore and Australia. By midday Wednesday more than 30 countries and airlines from India to Italy had banned Boeing 737 Max jets from their skies after a second fatal crash of one of the planes brought the death toll to 346 people. from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/17/two-boeing-737-fatal-plane-crashes-the-world-turns-on-the-faa.html https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2019/03/12/105789252-1552412804348gettyimages-1130037691.530x298.jpeg?v=1552498369