Following the crash of two Boeing MAX 8 aircraft less than 5 months apart, just over 30 % of the global fleet has been grounded.

This affects 140 aircraft from 24 operators who have either voluntarily or being ordered by their local civil aviation authorities to do so.

The Singaporean regulator is suspending operation of all variants of the Max into and out of Singapore from 14:00 local time on 12 March.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has meanwhile said that it has not received enough evidence to warrant an order to ground the US fleet of Max aircraft.
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Ethiopian Airlines has joined Cayman airlines and the Civil Aviation Authority of China to grounded its Boeing 737 Max 8 fleet, as a precaution following the crash of flight ET302 on the Addis Ababa-Nairobi route on 10 March.

The grounding is until further notice, says the airline.
“Although we don’t yet know the cause of the accident, we had to decide to ground the particular fleet as an extra safety precaution.”

Southwest Air, American Airlines, and Air Canada – are currently continuing the use of the aircraft, until further notice.

Ethiopian Airlines operating flight ET302 to Nairobi, has crashed, shortly after taking off from the Ethiopian capital.
The airline has confirmed that there are no survivors of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft after it crashed 8 minutes after take off from Addis Ababa.

Its group chief executive, Tewolde Gebremariam, has attended the accident scene and the carrier says it “regrets to confirm” that all on board were lost in the crash.

Ethiopian has provisionally indicated that 157 occupants – comprising 149 passengers and eight crew – had been travelling on the twinjet.