Some airlines have already taken the precaution of grounding its 737 Max planes, in the wake of the second tragedy in five months involving the same airplane model.
The Boeing 737 Max jetliner stands at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington.
Travelers around the world took to social media to express fears about the plane’s safety – or seek reassurance from carriers that fly it. Hours earlier, an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed after leaving Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board. Some flyers said they were now too fearful to board one of those planes.
The disaster followed the plunge of a Lion Air 737 Max into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia on Oct. 29. A preliminary report into that crash, which killed 189 passengers and crew, indicated pilots struggled to maintain control following an equipment malfunction.
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