China orders MAX 8 planes grounded after Ethiopia crash.
The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa is drawing renewed scrutiny of the plane just four months after a crash of the same model of aircraft in Indonesia.
China's Civil Aviation Administration said that it ordered airlines to ground all 737 Max 8 aircraft as of 6 p.m. Monday, in line with the principle of"zero tolerance for security risks." The head of Indonesia's national transport safety agency, Soerjanto Thahjono, offered to aid the Ethiopian investigation into Sunday's crash.
The situation will be better understood after investigators find and analyze the Ethiopian plane's black boxes, said William Waldock, an aviation-safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University."Investigators are not big believers in coincidence," he said. Ethiopian has a good reputation and the company's CEO told reporters no problems were spotted before Sunday's fight, but investigators also will look into the plane's maintenance, which may have been an issue in the Lion Air crash.
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