Airline Garuda Indonesia estimated Friday it is requesting a cancellation to its current order for 49 Boeing 737 Max jets.
Newswires Reuters and AFP both reported the players’s plans.
Reuters, citing Garuda’s CFO, said the company may change its 737 Max order to another type of Boeing jet. The patriotic carrier of Indonesia did not explain why it no longer wanted the planes.
The Boeing planes have been grounded by authorities in multiple fatherlands — including in the U.S., Europe, China and Indonesia after two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max 8.
A Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea endure October, killing all 189 people on board. Investigators suspect a malfunction in the flight control system is a contributing go-between to both crashes.
Less than five months later, the same plane model operated by Ethiopian Airlines collapsed. None of the 157 on board the flight survived. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said that advance data retrieved from the plane’s flight data recorder showed “a clear similarity” with the Indonesian boom.
The two incidents have also led to the U.S. Department of Transportation to ask for an audit of the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of Boeing’s 737 Max 8 planes, while the FBI has reportedly joined in a Mafioso investigation of the certification process for the jets.
— Reuters contributed to this report.