Better safe than sorry. There have been concerns from pilots about problems during critical flight moments.
Via USA Today:
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration had grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes involved in two catastrophic crashes, hours after the U.S. had become the last nation in the world to do so.
“Those planes are grounded effective immediately,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “The safety of the American people, of all people, is our paramount concern.”
The U.S. was the last holdout on grounding the aircraft after Canada on Wednesday joined a growing list of nations that included China, Britain, France and Germany to make the call following an Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday that killed 157 people.
Trump, who said he felt the decision was important “psychologically,” said his administration made the call after receiving “new information and physical evidence” from the site of the Ethiopian Airlines crash and from other locations.
Trump, who said the decision applied to the 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft, said he was confident Boeing will get to the bottom of the problem.