Ethiopian Airlines crash updates

Much of the world, including the EU, China and India — but not the US — has banned flights of the Boeing 737 Max 8 since one of the planes crashed on Sunday in Ethiopia, killing more than 150 people. Investigators are still waiting for information from Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302’s voice and data recorders, which were recovered from the crash site on Monday. The jets typically make more than 8,500 flights per week worldwide. Sunwing, a Canadian carrier, said on Tuesday that it was temporarily grounding its four Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft even though Canada’s government, like that of the United States, has not ordered the move. The company said the step was “unrelated to safety.” Instead, the airline said, the move was prompted by growing airspace bans by countries and “evolving commercial reasons.” The EU on Tuesday joined the governments of the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Singapore and other countries in suspending all Max 8 flights into or out of their airports. At least 34 airlines have now grounded the model, which means roughly two-thirds of the Max 8 planes in operation are now idled. The FAA in the United States has resisted pressure to ground the Max 8. While regulators in much of the world have ordered temporary groundings of the Boeing 737 Max 8 as a precautionary measure, the UN civil aviation agency said it would await definitive findings about what went wrong on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.<br/>