The emergency exit door of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 broke off during takeoff, causing the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to temporarily ban 171 similar aircraft from flying. Following this decision of the FAA, Turkish Airlines (THY) announced that it had temporarily withdrawn 5 Boeing 737 MAX 9s from its fleet. While this situation makes the future of the company's 2 aircraft in Iran uncertain, it is reminded that the previous withdrawal of Boeing 737 MAX 8s caused serious losses for airline companies.
In a past incident, as a result of the crash of Boeing 737 Max 8s in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 due to a software error, the flights of these aircraft were stopped all over the world. As a result of its research, Boeing determined that the data mismatch between sensors was effective in the crash of the Max 8s and developed new software and put the planes back into flight. This raises concerns that a similar incident could now lead to the withdrawal of THY's 737 MAX 9s from flights. Uncertainty continues about how the withdrawal of aircraft will affect the company's flight schedules and how possible financial losses will be compensated.
