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FAA clears Boeing 737 Max to fly after fatal crashes in 2019

By Anthony Leonardi
Published November 18, 2020 2:50pm ET
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FAA clears Boeing 737 Max to fly after fatal crashes in 2019
A worker looks up at a parked Boeing 737 Max 8 built for Jet Airways as another 737 Max 8 made for Shenzhen Airlines stands behind at a Boeing Co. production facility in Renton, Wash. | (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Boeing’s 737 Max airplane will fly in the sky once again.

On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration cleared the aircraft model for flight after two deadly crashes grounded all flights from the 737 Max in March 2019. The crashes, which occurred in Ethiopia and Indonesia, killed 376 passengers.

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