After long ban, Boeing 737 MAX tests its wings in China: Report

A 737 MAX test plane left Seattle last week to conduct a test flight in China, a key market where it remains grounded.

A Boeing 737 MAX test plane took to the skies in China as the United States manufacturer looks to end a nearly two-and-a-half-year regulatory grounding of the model in the key travel market. Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed a 737 MAX 7 test plane taking off from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport at 9:24am (01:24 GMT) on Wednesday, with no destination listed, flying in a south-easterly direction. The flight tracking was incomplete, but photos on Chinese aviation blogs showed it landed at Zhoushan Putuoshan Airport, about 150 km (93 miles) to the south, which industry sources told the Reuters news agency was the expected destination.