The General Civil Aviation Authority approved the aircraft to return to service
Local airlines must first provide a plan for bringing the plane back safely
The Max accounts for 80 per cent of Boeing’s backlog of 5,121 orders and is the company’s only offering in the crucial single-aisle market
The Max was grounded in March 2019 in the wake of two accidents that took 346 lives
The planemaker and the US Federal Aviation Administration began a series of flights this week to test whether the revamped aircraft is safe to resume operations