President Donald Trump on Wednesday made the US Federal Aviation Authorities to eat their words over the safety of Boeing Co\u2019s 737 MAX jets as he ordered their grounding, saying the FAA would make a formal announcement.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the 737 MAX 8 and the 737 MAX 9 and planes associated with that line,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House.
\n\u201cThe FAA is prepared to make an announcement very shortly regarding the new information and physical evidence that we\u2019ve have received from the site, and from other locations and through a couple of other complaints,\u201d he said, referring to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
\nWhen the FAA issues the announcement, it will be doing a major somersault, after initially refusing to acknowledge the safety concerns worldwide.
\n\u201cThus far, our review shows no systemic performance issues and provides no basis to order grounding the aircraft,\u201d Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Daniel Elwell said in a statement on Tuesday.
\nTrump\u2019s action followed a boycott of the Boeing model by Canada, Europe and other nations over safety concerns on the tail of\u00a0\u00a0Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday.
\nBoeing shares, which were up earlier in the session, fell 2 percent to $367.70. The shares have fallen about 13 percent since the crash, losing more than $25 billion of market value.
\nMeanwhile, Germany\u2019s federal agency responsible for investigating air accidents will not analyse the black box from the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday, casting uncertainty over the process of finding out what may have caused the disaster.
\n\u201cThis is a new type of aircraft with a new black box, with new software. We can\u2019t do it,\u201d said Germout Freitag, a spokesman for Germany\u2019s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU).
\nThe move leaves unclear the destination of the black box, which may yield vital details of what caused the Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 to plunge to the ground, killing 157 people.
\nA spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines had said earlier that the black boxes recovered from the crashed plane would be sent to Germany for analysis.
\nCanada also grounded 737 MAX jets on Wednesday, saying satellite data suggested similarities to a previous crash involving the same plane model.
\nCountries around the world have grounded the 737 MAX jets or banned them from flying over their airspace since the Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday.
\nThe still unexplained crash followed another involving a Boeing 737 MAX in Indonesia five months ago that killed 189 people.
\nAlthough there is no proof of any link, the twin disasters have spooked passengers, led to the grounding of most of Boeing\u2019s 737 MAX fleet and hammered shares in the U.S. planemaker, the world\u2019s largest.
\nCanadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau told a news conference that Ottawa would stop 737 MAX 8 and 9 jets from leaving, arriving or flying over Canada.
\nHe said satellite data suggested similarities between the flight profiles of the Ethiopian jet and that of a Lion Air plane of the same type that crashed in Indonesia last year. Both planes crashed shortly after takeoff.
\nAir Canada and rival WestJet Airlines operate a total of 37 Boeing 737 MAX jets.
\nBoeing has said it has full confidence in the 737 MAX \u2013 a model that has 371 jets in operation around the world.
\nEthiopian Airlines spokesman Asrat Begashaw said it was still unclear what happened on Sunday, but its pilot had reported control issues \u2013 as opposed to external factors such as birds.
\n\u201cThe pilot reported flight control problems and requested to turn back. In fact he was allowed to turn back,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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