India’s air safety regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Thursday, said it had cleared Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft to fly with immediate effect.
With this, the country’s air safety regulator ended its nearly two-and-a-half-years of regulatory grounding in a key travel market for Boeing.
However, in April this year, the DGCA allowed the grounded aircraft to resume flying over the Indian airspace and also allowed foreign-registered aircraft to be ferried out of the country to conduct operational readiness flights. It, however, did not allow Indian aircraft grounded in the country to fly at that time.
The latest order, however, rescinds any kind of ban DGCA had earlier imposed on Boeing 737 Max aircraft, after the American aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European regulator European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approved the airworthiness directive and return to service of the aircraft with extensive fixes.
(With inputs from ANI)
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