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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by mhandley on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:43AM (#19368022)
UK CAA just grounded 737 Max, and not permitting overflight either.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502

"The UK Civil Aviation Authority has been closely monitoring the situation, however, as we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator arriving, departing or overflying UK airspace"

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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by alexhutcheson on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:20AM (#19368985)
Banning overflight seems like a politically-motivated overreaction. Both incidents took place shortly after takeoff, and there's no current reason to believe the planes aren't safe at cruising altitude.
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Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et... by avar on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:35AM (#19369147)
Dublin airport in Ireland is about as far from UK territory as both of the 737 MAX's were from their respective airports when they crashed into the ground.

It would be an unfortunate complication for the current discussion on a hard Brexit potentially happening within 3 weeks if the UK needed to work out what to do with an airplane strewn across that border on top of everything else.

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