In a significant development, the Indonesian government has recently lifted the ban on the Boeing 737 MAX, three years after a deadly crash on one of the aircraft operated by Indonesian airline Lion Air led to the loss of all 189 people aboard.
The Boeing 737 MAX which was one of the best selling variants of Boeing was grounded after it was involved in two fatal crashes within a span of six months including the Lion Air flight which took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta in October 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March 2019, reportedly owing to Boeing's faulty design of the jet's anti-stall system. The Ethiopian Airlines aircraft crashed minutes after its take-off from Addis Ababa near the town of Bishoftu killing all 157 people on board. Post these tragedies, many governments around the world had taken to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX.
In a statement, the Ministry of Transportation said that "after going through the process of investigation", it was preparing to lift the operational ban on the aircraft. The Indonesian Transport ministry said that the lifting of the ban would be 'effective immediately' and that it follows regulators' check of changes made to the aircraft's systems.
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