WASHINGTON/OTTAWA – The United States and Canada are continuing to hold out from grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 within their borders on Tuesday — a model of passenger aircraft that has experienced two fatal crashes within the period of six months — while most of Europe, some of southeast Asia and a South American country ground the jet.
The pair of North American countries are allowing the Max jets to operate until more information is available from the Federal Aviation Administration, who put out a statement earlier saying the agency’s review “shows no systemic performance issues and provides no basis to order grounding the aircraft.
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The European Union, made of up of 28 countries, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Turkey have grounded all Max 8 jets. Specific airlines have also grounded the model.
The groundings were precipitated by an Ethiopian Airlines crash on Mar. 10 that killed all 157 people on board, a second fatal accident after an Oct. 29, 2018 crash in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia’s Jakarta that killed 189.
Boeing is based in the U.S., however, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Mitt Romney of Utah, Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have called for the jet to be grounded nationally pending an investigation.
Canada’s two largest airlines — Air Canada and WestJet — have said they are confident in the safety of the aircraft.
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