WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Listed here are some details in regards to the Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800 jet and China Japanese Airways (NYSE:), concerned in a crash on a home flight on Monday with 132 folks on board.

BOEING 737-800

The Boeing 737-800 is a part of the 737 household, the world’s most-flown industrial plane collection. It was developed within the Sixties to serve short- or medium-length routes.

The 737-800 is a part of the 737 NG or Subsequent-Technology household – with greater than 7,000 delivered since 1993 – and it has a robust security report after almost three a long time of flights. The 162- to 189-seat 737-800 was launched on Sept. 5, 1994. The NG is the predecessor to the 737 MAX.

The MAX was grounded worldwide for 20 months after two deadly crashes killed 346. It stays grounded in China.

The jet concerned within the China Japanese accident, en route from the southwestern metropolis of Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, was six years previous, in response to Flightradar24.

In the US, American Airways (NASDAQ:) has essentially the most 737-800s in operation with 265 adopted by Southwest Airways (NYSE:) with 205 and United Airways with 136, in response to Cirium information.

The final deadly 737-800 crash occurred in August 2020 when an Air India Specific airplane overshot the table-top runway and crashed whereas touchdown at Calicut Worldwide Airport within the southern state of Kerala in heavy rain, killing 21. A authorities report cited pilot error because the possible trigger.

CHINA

China’s airline security report has been among the many greatest on the planet for a decade however is much less clear than in nations like the US and Australia the place regulators launch detailed reviews on non-fatal incidents.

Based on Aviation Security Community, China’s final deadly jet accident was in 2010, when 44 of 96 folks on board have been killed when an Embraer E-190 regional jet flown by Henan Airways crashed on method to Yichun airport.

In 1994, a China Northwest Airways Tupolev Tu-154 crashed en route from Xian to Guangzhou, killing all 160 on board in China’s worst-ever air catastrophe, in response to Aviation Security Community.

Monday’s catastrophe was the primary deadly crash for China Japanese since 2004, when a airplane crashed shortly after it took off from an airport in north China, killing 55, in response to ASN.

Shanghai-based China Japanese was created in 1988 and is likely one of the largest three airways in China, with one of many youngest fleet of planes.

It’s a part of the SkyTeam Alliance and U.S. service Delta Air Traces (NYSE:) holds a 2% stake. China Japanese has ranked in recent times among the many ten largest carriers in complete passengers carried. Delta has “a strategic joint advertising and industrial cooperation association masking visitors flows between China and the U.S.”

Passenger visitors between China and the US has declined dramatically because the COVID-19 pandemic.

(The story is refiled to provide full identify of airline in headline)