President Donald Trump announced today in a press conference that the FAA would be grounding all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 aircraft
User:Acefitt [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia CommonsPresident Donald Trump announced today in a press conference that the FAA would be grounding all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 aircraft in the United States. CNBC reports the decision comes following a conversation that took place between President Trump, Daniel Elwell, and Elaine Chao. Elwell is the acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration which controls all aircraft operations within the US. Chao is the US Transportation Secretary. Boeing Aircraft Company (BA) CEO Dennis Muilenburg was also involved in the talks and it is reported that Boeing recommended that the planes be grounded as a measure of caution.
President Trump announced his decision, in spite of the FAA stating earlier that there was no reason to ground the fleet because of the incident. Elwell did tell reporters in a call on Wednesday that the flight track of the Ehtiopian Airlines flight that crashed on Sunday “behaved similarly to the Lion Air flight” that crashed in October of last year.
Boeing announced the release of its newest addition to the 737 family of aircraft in August of 2011, and the aircraft took flight on January 29,2016. The first aircraft was delivered for service to Malindo Air on May 6,2017.
