On this episode of Av Talk, we discuss the Ethiopian investigator's preliminary report on the crash of Ethiopian 302 and Boeing's efforts to get the max back in the air.

We are also joined by our resident numbers expert Gavin Wirbeloff to discuss how airlines

around the world are managing their fleet renewals and thieves in Albania pull off

a brazen heist. Hello and welcome to episode 55 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here joined always with

Hello, Ian Jason Rebinowitz here and we have a special guest.

Welcome everyone back to the program, Gavin Wuerboff, our resident numbers expert.

He'll be joining us for much of the program today.

Hi guys, how's it going?

Well, it's going well. Jason you are back from your travels in

Hamburg. I'm back that's right which you made it. Oddly curse-free this year, which is pretty great.

I have to say I timed my annual appearance on the show a little off because last year I was able

to take pot shots at Jason without him being able to respond.

That's right, you filled in while I was away at AIX, didn't you?

So Gavin is back for this episode.

We're going to dig into even more numbers. We're going to hear from Jason and Seth Miller from

Hamburg later in the show.

I forgot about that. Yeah, cool.

And we'll dive right into the biggest news of the past two weeks, which is the preliminary accident

investigation report into the crash of Ethiopian 302.

The Ethiopian Air Accident Investigation Board issued their report

at the beginning of April about a week ago now

and it lays clear some of the data that we had seen reported previously,

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