Crash victims' families told approval of 737 Max by Transport Canada looks 'imminent'

The father of a young woman who died in the Boeing 737 Max crash last year says federal officials told victims' families approval of the beleaguered aircraft is “imminent.” Transport Canada's head of civil aviation informed family members in a virtual meeting Wednesday the department is on the cusp of validating changes to the plane - already cleared for takeoff in the United States - said Chris Moore, who lost his 24-year-old daughter Danielle in the tragedy. The Max has been grounded in Canada since March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plummeted to the ground six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board in the second of two Max crashes less than five months apart. Moore said he is concerned the review processes that led regulators to green-light a fatally defective plane remain in place. “They basically said they have one or two minor things to go over,” Moore said. “But we still don't know exactly how they're going to reform the way that they validate these airplanes.”<br/>