Unless Boeing can convincingly guarantee the safety of the Boeing 737 Max 8, the Russian airline Aeroflot will withdraw its order for 20 such planes.

This is stated by the airline's CEO Vitaly Savelyev, according to Reuters.

”If there is not 100 percent guarantee that the plane is safe, no one will want it,” he says.

Aeroflot has orders for 20 737 Max 8s intended for its low-cost subsidiary Pobeda, and deliveries were scheduled to begin in November.

”"Either Boeing solves the safety problems with the 737 Max by then, or we will order another aircraft model."”

The financial newspaper Vedomosti writes on Friday that the Russian government has suggested that Pobeda limit its business with Boeing to the 20 737s and instead purchase Russian-built aircraft in the future.

Source: di.se