
In the space of 19 weeks between 2018 and 2019, two brand new Boeing 737 Max airplanes crashed, killing all 346 passengers and crew on board.
Indonesian carrier Lion Air’s Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea after taking off from Jakarta airport in October 2018. Six months later, in March, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 headed to Kenya crashed in a field near Addis Abba Bole Airport.