{"id":4022,"date":"2019-03-13T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:25:12","slug":"president-trump-issues-order-ground-boeing-737-max-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Issues Order Ground Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON\n (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday grounded Boeing Co’s 737 MAX\n jets, citing new satellite data and evidence from the scene of Sunday’s\n crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people, the second\n disaster involving the 737 in less than five months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\n was the second time the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has halted\n flights of a Boeing plane in six years. It had grounded the 787 \nDreamliner in 2013 because of problems with smoking batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shares\n of the world’s biggest plane maker, which were up earlier in the \nsession, fell 2 percent to $370.48. The shares have fallen about 13 \npercent since Sunday’s crash, losing about $32 billion of market value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shares of Southwest Airlines Co, which has the largest fleet of 737 MAX aircraft, fell 0.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The\n agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and\n new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today,” the FAA said in\n a statement, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the \nplanes would be grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grounding will remain in effect as the FAA investigates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing, which maintained that its planes were safe to fly, said it supported the move to temporarily ground 737 MAX flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n United States joins Europe, China and other countries in grounding \nBoeing’s newest plane since the Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed soon \nafter taking off from Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n still-unexplained crash followed another involving a Boeing 737 MAX in \nIndonesia five months ago that killed 189 people. Although there is no \nproof of any link, the twin disasters have spooked passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grounding was welcomed by air workers in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He\n (Trump) did the right thing by grounding this fleet, both for air \ntravelers and aviation workers,” John Samuelsen, international president\n of the Transport Workers Union of America, which represent aviation \nworkers and flight attendants, told Reuters shortly after the \nannouncement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our\n members are excited, and are no longer concerned about stepping into a \nworkplace which could lead to the end of their lives, potentially.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW SATELLITE DATA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\n also grounded 737 MAX jets on Wednesday, saying satellite data \nsuggested similarities to the previous crash involving the same plane \nmodel in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S.-based\n aircraft-tracking firm Aireon provided the satellite data to the FAA, \nTransport Canada and several other authorities, company spokeswoman \nJessie Hillenbrand said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aireon’s\n space-based system can monitor data from aircraft equipped with \nAutomatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) transponders. The \ndata is considered less detailed than that in black boxes, which look at\n systems running inside the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier\n on Wednesday, Germany’s federal agency responsible for investigating \nair accidents said it would not analyze the black box from the Ethiopian\n Airlines plane, casting uncertainty over the process of finding out \nwhat may have caused the disaster. The U.S. FAA said the black boxes \nwere headed to France later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethiopian\n Airlines spokesman Asrat Begashaw said it was still unclear what \nhappened on Sunday, but its pilot had reported control issues as opposed\n to external factors such as birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The pilot reported flight control problems and requested to turn back. In fact he was allowed to turn back,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington, Kumerra Gemechu in Gora-Bokka, Ethiopia, David Ljunggren in Ottawa; Additional reporting by Duncan Miriri and Aaron Maasho in Addis Ababa; Doina Chiacu in Washington, Omar Mohammed and Maggie Fick in Nairobi; Tim Hepher in Paris; Jamie Freed in Singapore; Terje Solsvik in Oslo; Aditi Shah in Mumbai; Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Aleksandar Vasovic in Belgrade; Julie Gordon in Ottawa; Angela Moon in New York; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne, Frances Kerry and Bill; Rigby; Editing by Gareth Jones, Nick Zieminski and Grant McCool)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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