The US aviation company Boeing has announced in the face of the crisis due to the occupied after two crashes with flight ban series 737 Max a billion-dollar write-off. In the second quarter, a special charge of $ 4.9 billion (€ 4.4 billion) after tax in the balance sheet, the company said yesterday after the US market close.
Boeing has plunged into a deep crisis following two plane crashes on identical 737 Max aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia, in which a total of 346 people died in October and March. For the affected type of aircraft – until then the best-selling model of the manufacturer – worldwide bans were imposed. Whether and when Boeing’s 737-Max series may withdraw again is currently unclear.
Boeing hopes for flying permission in the fall
Boeing hopes to get back in the fall a permit for the machines concerned. The company said yesterday that it would aim to return to operations at the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year. That is only a „best estimate“. The actual date may differ from this estimate.
