The United States today grounded Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 airplanes, joining other nations around the world in ordering the aircraft out of the skies following Sunday’s crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the temporary grounding of all MAX airplanes operated by U.S. airlines or being flown in U.S. airspace and said the decision was “a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today.”
The agency did not elaborate on what that evidence was.
The FAA said the airplanes would remain grounded pending further investigation of the Ethiopian accident, including the examination of Flight 302’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
The Ethiopian Airlines crash, shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killed all 157 people in the airplane.
The FAA announcement came hours after a similar statement from Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau, who also cite…
