US President Donald Trump has decided to ground all Boeing 737 Max airplanes, citing safety concerns after the fatal crash in Ethiopia. The US was among the last holdovers in grounding the controversial jet. This defective plane is now banned almost everywhere in the world. Good! “The safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern,” Trump said Wednesday at the White House,... 

Months after a deadly crash in Indonesia involving the same model, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has crashed on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, minutes after take-off. Operated by Ethiopian Airlines, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was on a routine flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the Kenyan capital. The airline confirmed that there were no survivors. The Ethiopian prime minister’s... 

A plane operated by the low-cost Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed while on a domestic flight from Jakarta. It’s the first crash ever for Boeing’s new 737 MAX 8 model. “It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the Indonesian rescue agency, said, as cited by Reuters. The plane was on its way from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta to the city of...