U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an emergency order to ground the Boeing 737 Max fleet
Canada and the United States changed course and grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft following the model’s second deadly crash in five months, both citing new information from the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people on Sunday.
Hours later, U.S. President Donald Trump announced at the White House that he issued an emergency order to ground the planes. The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to address the order later in the afternoon.— Donald J. Trump March 13, 2019Boeing touched a session low on the news, falling as much as 2.8 per cent.
Garneau previously said he had full confidence in the safety of the model and would not hesitate to board one. But he told reporters at a press conference in Ottawa the new satellite data received Wednesday morning prompted the department to re-evaluate.
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