Emirates Boss Urges Boeing to Review Mistakes

Emirates Airline President Tim Clark on Sunday challenged Boeing to review things that had gone wrong, predicting that the fallout from a recent industrial and safety crisis could last as long as five years.

“I think we have a five-year hiatus on our hands,” he told reporters in Dubai.

He also expected industry policies around turbulence and seatbelts would become more conservative after one person died and dozens were injured on a Singapore Airlines flight hit by turbulence last month.

Tim Clark told reporters in Dubai that Emirates was using artificial intelligence-based systems in a bid to better predict where turbulence might occur.

This came as US planemaker Boeing is engulfed in a sprawling safety crisis, exacerbated by a January mid-air panel blowout on a near new 737 MAX plane.