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Boeing 737 MAX returns to sky with commercial flight in Brazil

By AFP
10 December 2020   |   12:33 pm
More than 20 months after it was grounded following two deadly crashes, Boeing's 737 MAX returned to the skies Wednesday with an incident-free commercial flight in Brazil.

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