Boeing 737 Max planes are back in the air. Are they safe?

Planning a flight? Boeing’s 737 Max-9 is back in rotation, weeks after the US company came under fire for a near-catastrophic incident aboard one of its planes. Alaska Airlines 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing when part of its wall blew off mid-flight. It’s not the first time a 737 Max has had problems. So what’s being done?

In this episode: 

• Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir), Aviation Analyst, Host, On-Air with Dan and Alex

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra and Fahrinisa Campana with our host Malika Bilal. Chloe K. Li fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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