Trump orders all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets in U.S. to be grounded

Trump orders all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets in U.S. to be grounded

US President Donald Trump has said the US Federal Aviation Administration will ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 – the aircraft in Sunday’s crash in Ethiopia.

The FAA had previously held out while many countries banned the Max 8 from flying over their airspace.

All 157 people on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight were killed when it crashed just minutes after take-off.

It was the second fatal Max 8 disaster in six months, after one crashed over Indonesia in October, killing 189.

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