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Europe lifts safety ban on Boeing 737 MAX jet By Tim Hepher and Rachit Vats FILE PHOTO: FAA Chief Steve Dickson takes off in a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in Seattle (Reuters) – European regulators on Wednesday lifted a 22-month ban on flights of the Boeing 737 MAX after a design and pilot training overhaul in the wake of crashes that killed 346 people. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) confirmed a provisional approval given in November, but dropped calls for an extra flight-angle sensor to back up a system implicated in crashes. “Let me be quite clear that this jou...

Clare engineer posthumously named Humanitarian of the Year December 18, 2020 CLARE engineer Micheál (Mick) Ryan, who died tragically in a plane crash in Ethiopia last year, has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross. The Lahinch man was named as the winner of the award at Wednesday’s virtual Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, with his wife, Naoise Ryan, accepting the award on his behalf. Mick, who lost his life in an Ethopian Airlines flight last year, had dedicated his life to humanitarian work overseas. During his career, Mick worked tirelessly to...

Irish Examiner view: Humanitarian award puts renewed focus on air safety Respect must be shown to those who have lost their lives Thu, 17 Dec, 2020 - 09:10 Mick Ryan, the UN worker killed in a Boeing air crash in 2019, has been named the Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year 2020, a posthumous honour highlighting his belief that engineering could change and save lives — but also a reminder of the cruel fact that he lost his life because of an engineering failure. The global deputy chief engineer with the UN’s World Food Programme was killed with 156 others in March 2019 when a Boeing 737 Ma...

The late Mick Ryan has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross Micheál (Mick) Ryan, an engineer with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross.  Clare man Mick Ryan was named as the winner of the award at last night’s virtual Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, with his wife, Naoise Ryan, accepting the award on his behalf. Mick, originally from Attychristoria, Lahinch, had dedicated his life to humanitarian work overseas. He died along with 156 others wh...