President Trump announced an emergency order from the FAA grounding Boeing 737 Max jets in the wake of an Ethiopian Airlines crash Sunday and a Lion Air accident in October that together killed 346 people.
Trump's announcement came as the FAA faced mounting pressure from aviation advocates and others to ban flights of the planes pending investigations into the deadly accidents.03:20
"It became clear that the track of the Ethiopian flight behaved very similarly to the Lion Air flight," said Steven Gottlieb, the FAA's deputy director of accident investigations. American has about 85 flights a day on Max 8s and Max 9s. United Airlines has about 40 such flights. Southwest Airlines has the most, about 150 a day, out of the airline's total of about 4,100 flights daily.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he believed the recent government shutdown delayed the installation of new, enhanced safety software in the Boeing jets after the Indonesia crash. "There must be a rigorous investigation into why the aircraft, which has critical safety systems that did not exist on prior models, was certified without requiring additional pilot training," House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Rick Larsen, D-Wash., said in a joint statement."We plan to conduct rigorous oversight with every tool at our disposal to get to the bottom of the FAA's decision-making process.
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