The US aviation regulator said Tuesday that there is “no basis” for grounding Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, one of which was involved in a crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people.
“Thus far, our review shows no systemic performance issues and provides no basis to order grounding the aircraft,” Federal Aviation Administration chief Daniel Elwell said in a statement.
“Nor have other civil aviation authorities provided data to us that would warrant action.” A new Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
That followed the October crash of a new Lion Air jet of the same model in Indonesia, which killed 189 people shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.
