But the U. S. regulator had come under intense pressure as other nations barred the jets from their airspace
Washington — After days of mounting pressure, the U. S. on Wednesday grounded all Boeing 737 Max jets, the aircraft involved in a deadly crash in Ethiopia. President Trump announced that the Federal Aviation Administration had ordered U. S. airlines to remove the popular passenger jet from service temporarily, but it gave no end date for the move. The decision followed bans in dozens of other countries.
The FAA said the decision was based on new information about the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 on Sunday that killed 157 people.
The jet’s „black boxes“ — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders — arrived in Paris overnight to be read. CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave was at Reagan National Airport outside Washington on Thursday morning, where some of the grounded Max jets were parked.
When the FAA decision was made, the 72 Max planes flown by Southwest, American, and United were told to stay put at the airport they were at or were flying into. All three carriers were scrambling on Thursday to make up the roughly 280 flights per day that those aircraft handled.
