Ethiopian Airlines unlikely to attend Boeing's meeting over 737 Max concerns

Boeing Co says it has invited more than 200 global airline pilots, technical leaders and regulators for an information session on Wednesday as it looks to return its 737 MAX model to commercial service but Ethiopian Airlines is unlikely to attend the meeting in the United States called by planemaker Boeing to tell aviation leaders about a planned update to software that is a focus of investigation in two deadly crashes, an airline spokesman told Reuters on Monday.

"We have no immediate plans to attend so far," spokesman Asrat Begashaw told Reuters by phone.

This comes after the chief of Ethiopian Airlines said on 23rd March that the warning and training requirements set for the now-grounded 737 Max aircraft may not have been enough following the Ethiopian plane crash that killed 157 people.

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam earlier in the day had said that the airline would work with investigators in Ethiopia, the United States and elsewhere "to figure out what went wrong with flight 302".