On this day, April 9, 1967, the first Boeing 737 plane made a trial, which is one of the best -selling aircraft in Boeing history.
The Boeing 737 plane is a type of medium -sized aircraft produced by the American company Boeing, and it is the most sold aircraft in the world where about 5,000 of them were sold.
Inside the plane, there are three seats in each row on both sides, in addition to being the favorite plane for economic airlines.
On its website, the American Boeing company describes the new generation of its "Boeing 737 Max" models as the best -selling aircraft in the company's history, after orders reached 4,700 aircraft from about 100 countries around the world.
But it seems that the world's largest aircraft company needs to review its expectations regarding the plane, in light of several countries and airline companies taking measures towards the "Max 8", including stopping the flight of the plane until examining it, following the disaster of the crash of a passenger plane of the Ethiopian Airlines "Boeing 737 Max 8 ", which is the second incident of the same model in less than 5 months.
The "Max" series is the fourth generation of Boeing 737, which was launched in August 2011, and made the first experimental flight in January 2016, and obtained a license to fly from the US Federal Aviation Administration in March 2017.
The series includes 4 different aircraft, which are the Max 7, MAX 8, MAX 10, and the Max 8 plane was the first aircraft that the company sells on May 6, 2017 to the Malaysian "Milandir Air" that it first used on May 22, 2017.
The models of the "Max" series differ in terms of the number of seats and the distance that you can travel on one flight and the dimensions of the plane and the type of its engine, and the plane (Max 8) that the suspicions currently hover, includes 210 seats and can fly a distance of 6570 km per trip, and is 39 length.52 meters, and its width "distance from the wing to the wing" 35.9 meters, and uses an EAP-1B jet engine produced by the company "CFM International".
Max aircraft succeeded in spreading due to the low operating expenses and compatibility with the global travel trends that tend to low -cost economic flights, and Boeing says, on its website, that the "Max" series provides efficiency in operation, reliability and safety, through the latest technologies that have been included to provide travelers with an experienceComfortable and fun flight.
According to the estimates of the American "Bloomberg" agency, Boeing relies on the "one -lane" 737 -lane models "to bring annual revenues of $ 30 billion annually, and its factories have raised their production capabilities to 57 aircraft per month during the current year.
The Ethiopian Airlines decided to stop flying all its 737 MAX 8 aircraft until further notice, after the accident, while China ordered the country airlines to suspend the aircraft of the same -style aircraft.
The Aviation Safety Authority in Indonesia also said that it discusses the possibility of suspending the flights of the plane, and South Korea has started special inspection procedures on the plane, while India requested information from Boeing about the accident.
The incident is the second of the plane produced by the American company "Boeing" in less than 5 months, as "Boeing 737 Max 8", affiliated to the Indonesian company "Lyon Air", fell during an internal trip after 13 minutes after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, which led to the death ofEveryone of 189 people were on board, amid an initial report indicated that this catastrophe occurred while the pilots were struggling to control the plane due to the equipment malfunction.