Riyadh – Many airline firms are grounding their Boeing 737 MAX after the US-manufactured jet suffered its second fatal crash in five months.
Ethiopian Airlines ' brand new Boeing 737 MAX crashed two days ago leaving 149 passengers and 8 crew members dead.
In view of this, Saudi airline companies have announced that their fleet do not have any Boeing 737 MAX planes.
In a statement to Okaz, Saudi low-cost airline Flynas' corporate communication director general and spokesman said that his company’s fleet is made of Airbus 320 only.
A sources from the Saudi Arabia Airlines said that the national carriers does not operate any Boeing 737 Max on any of its domestic or international flights.
China was among the first countries in world to ground their Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes, after the modern jet suffered a second fatal crash in just five months – with its aviation watchdog noting disturbing similarities between the incidents.
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