Boeing 737 delivery crashes 73% in Q2 2019 after deadly crashes
US top aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company said on Tuesday it delivered 24 737 commercial airplanes in the second quarter of 2019, a drastic fall of about 73 per cent from the previous quarter.
The significant decline of 737 jets in the second quarter indicated Boeing is reeling from the impact of two deadly air crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in October 2018 and March 2019, respectively. Boeing delivered 89 737 airplanes in the first quarter, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The 737 MAX aircraft have been grounded globally since March this year after two 737 jets fell down in Indonesia last October and Ethiopia in March 2019, and the two incidents killed a total of 346 people aboard.
