美国宣布停飞波音737MAX 波音仍坚称飞机安全

The U. S. is grounding the Boeing 737 Max. That line of planes was involved in two deadly crashes in the last five months, most recently over the weekend in Ethiopia.

Any 737 Max plane currently in the air will finish flying to its destination, then be grounded until further notice. Many other countries around the world had already pulled the planes out of service.

NPR's Camila Domonoske is following this story and is here with us in the studio. Hi, Camila. Hi, Ari.

What do we know about the decision to ground the planes? So you have these two crashes of the exact same model of plane in fairly similar circumstances just a few months apart.

A lot of countries around the world based pretty much just off that information saw this as enough reason to ground the planes. You saw a lot of announcements over the last few days, but the U. S. was waiting, they said, for more information.

And today, the FAA said they had that information. There is new data from the crash site according to U. S. authorities and from, quote-unquote, newly refined satellite imagery

and that information tells the FAA that there are signs of similarities between these two crashes that were enough to prompt the grounding of all of these planes that operate in the U. S.

And that's about 72 planes here in the U. S. They fly for Southwest, for American and for United. Just yesterday, Boeing's CEO was telling President Trump that these planes were safe. So what's Boeing saying today?

Boeing still says that the planes are safe, but Boeing also supports the grounding of the 737 Max out of, quote, an abundance of caution.

CEO Dennis Muilenburg also says that they're doing everything they can to understand the cause of the accidents and make sure it doesn't happen again.