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Alaska Airlines not yet flying Boeing jet involved in crash

Published 3:00 am Tuesday, March 12, 2019

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alaska Airlines not yet flying Boeing jet involved in crash
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Alaska Airlines not yet flying Boeing jet involved in crash
Wreckage lies at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (Mulugeta Ayene | Associated Press)

ANCHORAGE — Alaska Airlines is not flying the type of Boeing jets involved in a deadly Ethiopian Airways crash but has orders pending for the aircraft.

The Anchorage Daily News reported that the company says its fleet does not currently include the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets involved in a crash Sunday that killed all 157 people on board.

A Max 8 aircraft also crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 people.

Alaska Airlines says it placed a $5 billion order for 20 Max 8 and 17 Max 9 models in 2012 with plans to begin using them this summer, but it is “too early to speculate on future deliveries.”

Some international airlines say they are grounding their Max aircraft, while many American companies say they do not plan to do so.

• This is an Associated Press report.

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