10 December

An airliner operated by a Brazilian carrier has become the first Boeing 737 MAX to resume commercial flights in nearly two years.

All planes of that model had been grounded worldwide since March 2019.

Gol Airlines put the aircraft back in service on Wednesday. It flew from Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo to Porto Alegre.

The carrier plans to resume operations of all its 737 MAX aircraft by the year's end.

A fatal crash in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia the following March triggered an order to ground all planes of that model.

The US Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light for the resumption of flights in November.

NHK