The US transportation secretary announced on Wednesday afternoon that no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 would return to service “until it is safe”, after Alaska Airlines announced the cancellation of all flights on its 737 Max 9 planes at the direction of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Pete Buttigieg said he was “not putting a timeline” on when the FAA will allow the planes to resume flights.

Every plane that the US aircraft manufacturer delivers “needs to be 100% safe”, Buttigieg added.

He said he has spoken to the head of Boeing and told him the company needs to do everything it can to establish 100% confidence in its planes.

  • SzymonEnglish
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    But I was told any option but unhindered capitalism was pure communism.

    Jesus, politicians need to grow a pair and actually help people. What do you need to do to convince them?

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          Being able to read Chinese characters, I had a really hard time seeing your name as you intended it

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              Interesting. On kbin I just see “ElBarto”. After seeing their comment I went through the original URL to see the Chinese characters.

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              I can’t see it anymore for some reason - it doesn’t mean anything really but I remember the first character being 毛 which is hair haha

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                Yeah I ended up changing it, people kept pointing it out so now I’ve made it clear.