«Breaking News» Indonesian airline scraps order for 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes

Indonesia's national carrier has cancelled an order for 49 of the Boeing jets which have crashed twice in five months.  

Garuda said its passengers have 'lost trust and no longer have confidence' in the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet after a combined 346 passengers died in air disasters in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The end of the $4.9bn (£3.7bn) order, believed to be the first such cancellation for the jet, deals a fresh blow to the Boeing plane after governments across the globe blocked it from their airspace.

Garuda, which ordered 50 aircraft is also talking to Boeing about whether or not to return the one plane it has already received. 

In a bid to stem the crisis, Boeing will change its rules to make an optional cockpit warning light compulsory as investigators focus on the plane's 'angle of attack' sensor. 

Indonesian carrier Garuda said passengers had 'lost trust and no longer have the confidence' in the Boeing plane following the crashes. Pictured: the one 737 Max 8 it has already received 

WHAT IS AN ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATOR AND DISAGREE LIGHT? 

As investigators look into the cause of the crashes, attention has turned to a new software in the jets that takes readings from devices called angle of attack sensors. 

The software can essentially push a plane's nose down in some circumstances, for example when the sensors suggest the plane may be stalling. 

Angle of attack indicator:

The angle of attack indicator displays the two sensors, which shows how much the aircraft's nose it tilted up or down. 

It is the angle between a plane's wing and the oncoming air, according to the FAA.

If the angle of attack becomes too great, the wing can stall and lose lift.

If a pilot fails to recognize and correct the situation, a stall could lead to loss of control of the aircraft and an abrupt loss of altitude.

The indicator can alert pilots of low airspeed conditions before a aerodynamic stall occurs, especially during takeoff and landing. Such stalls can send the plane downwards in an uncontrolled way.

Angle of attack disagree light: 

The disagree light activates if the two sensors in the software do not agree. 

Boeing will now make the disagree light free of charge as part of a forthcoming software update to the 737 MAX fleet in the wake of the two fatal crashes, officials briefed on the matter said on Thursday. 

Garuda had so far paid Boeing about $26 million, while the company's head told Indonesian media that it would consider switching to a new version of the single-aisle jet.

'In principle, it's not that we want to replace Boeing, but maybe we will replace [them] with another model,' a director said.

Boeing officials will visit Indonesia next week to discuss Garuda's plans to call off the order.

'We have sent a letter to Boeing requesting that the order be cancelled,' Garuda spokesman Ikhsan Rosan announced.

'The reason is that Garuda passengers in Indonesia have lost trust and no longer have the confidence' in the plane, he said.

Aviation expert Shukor Yusof said Garuda's announcement were the first formal plans by a carrier to cancel an order for the 737 MAX 8.

'It will probably not be the last. There is a risk that Garuda's rival Lion Air, which also has many 737 MAX 8 orders, might make the same decision,' he said.

Lion Air has said it was postponing delivery of four of the jets after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into a flight to Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.

Lion Air operates 10 Max 8 jets, part of a then-record $22 billion order from Boeing made in 2011.

The airlines are the only two that use the Max 8 in Indonesia.

The Ethiopian tragedy came after a Lion Air jet of the same model crashed in Indonesia in October, killing all 189 people on board. 

Boeing will change its rules to make an optional cockpit warning light compulsory, in the wake of the deadly Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes. Pictured: the very Boeing 737 Max 8 jet which crashed in Ethiopia on March 10, killing 157 people  

The cockpit of a Boeing Co. 737 MAX 9 jetliner is seen during production at the company's manufacturing facility in Renton, Washingto

Both planes reportedly experienced erratic steep climbs and descents as well as fluctuating airspeeds before crashing shortly after takeoff. 

Boeing will now require the jet to have an 'AoA Disagree' alert, which was previously optional and came at an extra cost, meaning some budget airlines such as Lion Air chose not to install them.

The alert warns pilots when the plane's critical 'angle of attack' readings may be wrong.

Faulty angle of attack sensors were blamed in part for the Indonesia disaster last October and have been at the centre of investigations into the Ethiopia crash.

In both cases, the pilots lost control soon after take-off and fought a losing battle to stop their jets plunging down.

Ethiopian emergency services work at the scene of the crash near Addis Ababa on March 10. The crash has set off one of the widest inquiries in aviation history and cast a shadow over the Boeing 737 MAX model intended to be a standard for decades 

An Indonesian officer holds the Lion Air JT610 flight data recorder shortly after it was found underwater last November 

In Indonesia, the sensor was said to have triggered the automated Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to force the plane's nose down.

MCAS was introduced by Boeing on the 737 Max 8.

Angle of attack sensors would tell MCAS to point the nose of a plane down if it was in danger of stalling.

According to the flight data recorder, the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 struggled to control the aircraft as the automated MCAS system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down following take-off.

The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines plane reported similar difficulty before the aircraft plunged into the ground near Addis Ababa on March 10. 

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