Pressure is mounting on Boeing after more airlines and countries grounded their fleets of 737 Max 8 jets in the wake of the Ethiopian air disaster.
India's Jet Airways this morning joined airlines in China, Mexico, Ethiopia, Brazil and South Africa in resolving to keep their Max 8s in hangers pending safety reviews.
Australia has suspended 737 MAX aircraft from flying to or from the country while Singapore issued the same orders at its busy Changi airport. Indonesia grounded its fleets and Vietnam said it would not grant licences for the jet until the cause of Sunday's crash was determined.
Flight ET302 was seen 'swerving and dipping' before crashing down minutes from take off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board including nine Britons.
It was the second disaster involving the US planemaker's latest model in less than five months after a Lion Air jet crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189.
US regulators have ordered Boeing to make urgent improvements to the aircraft model.
Pressure is mounting on Boeing after more airlines and countries grounded their fleets of 737 Max 8 jets in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines disaster. Pictured: Emergency crews at the scene of the crash last night
Flight ET302 was seen 'swerving and dipping' before crashing down minutes from take off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board including nine Britons
India's Jet Airways this morning joined airlines in China, Mexico, Ethiopia, Brazil and South Africa in resolving to keep their Max 8s in hangers pending safety reviews. Pictured: A SilkAir plane at Changi Airport after Singapore suspended operations for all Boeing 737 Max 8s at the busy terminal
Three Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes from Shanghai Airlines are pictured at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai. China ordered domestic airlines to suspend commercial operation of the jet model citing the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air disasters
The scare has wiped billions of dollars off the market value of the world's biggest planemaker, as the Boeing Co share closed five per cent down on Monday having fallen by as much as 13.5 per cent at one point.
Investigators have recovered the black box flight recorders from the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane, which was carrying passengers and crew from 35 countries, including some two dozen UN staff.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it was ordering Boeing to improve anti-stalling software and the model's maneuvering system, giving the company until the end of April to make the updates.
But the body ruled out grounding the fleet for now. It said investigations had 'just begun' and so far no data had been provided to 'draw any conclusions or take any actions.'
'If we identify an issue that affects safety, the FAA will take immediate and appropriate action,' it said in a statement.
Pictures have emerged showing the scale of the crash site from above. Diggers have been excavating the site in a bid to locate bodies
The disaster was the second deadly incident involving the new model of Boeing passenger jet in less than five months, prompting concern over its safety
As many as 19 UN workers were feared to have been killed in the crash, the number being so high because of its environmental forum which started on Monday
Ethiopian Airlines chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam said the pilot had sent out a distress call and was given the all-clear to return to the airport
Last last night, Boeing Co confirmed it will deploy a software upgrade to the 737 MAX 8, a few hours after the FAA said it would mandate 'design changes' in the aircraft by April.
Boeing did not reference Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines crash in connection to the software upgrade. The statement did express the company's condolences to the relatives of the 157 people who died, however.
The company said in the aftermath of October's Lion Air Flight crash it has for several months 'been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer.'
The software upgrade 'will be deployed across the 737 MAX fleet in the coming weeks,' it said.
Meanwhile, Australia's civil aviation safety authority this morning suspended the MAX aircraft from flying to or from the country.
'This is a temporary suspension while we wait for more information to review the safety risks of continued operations of the Boeing 737 MAX to and from Australia,' Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority CEO Shane Carmody said in a statement.
Singapore regulators' have announced that all types of MAX aircraft were banned from its airspace. That came after China ordered domestic airlines to suspend commercial operations of the MAX 8, and Indonesia grounded its entire fleet of the jets for inspections.
British death toll from tragic Ethiopian Airlines plane rises to nine as Foreign Office confirms mother and son were also killed
Nine Britons were killed in the Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed yesterday morning - two more than was feared.
The Foreign Office revised up the number of British victims today after discovering that some of them had dual nationality.
Last night it emerged that British-Somali passengers Sarah Hassan Said and Nasrudin Abdulakir were killed when the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet came down within minutes of take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday.
Another British victim was named yesterday as Sam Pegram, a 25-year-old aid worker who grew up in Lancashire.
Mr Pegram's old secondary school, Penwortham Priory Academy, confirmed their old pupil's death and said he was remembered 'with great fondness'.
In addition to UN worker Joanna Toole, polar expert Sarah Auffet and Joseph Waithaka from Hull, the latest news means that six out of nine British victims have now been named.
At least 12 passengers, including Ms Toole, from Exmouth, Devon, were travelling to Nairobi for a UN environment gathering.
Briton Joanna Toole (right) and French-British dual national Sarah Auffret (left) have been named among victims of the air disaster in Ethiopia
Irishman Michael Ryan (pictured left), who worked for the UN's World Food Programme, and Kenyan-British dual national Joseph Waithaka (right) - who used to live in Hull - were also among the 149 passengers killed
Nasrudin Abdulkadir and his mother Sarah Hassan Said, both Somali-British nationals, died on the doomed plane, the FCO confirmed on Monday evening
Sam Pegram, pictured, a 25-year-old aid worker was named on Monday as another British victim of the Ethiopian air disaster
Ethiopian Airlines has grounded its remaining MAX 8 jets, while airlines in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico have taken theirs out of service and pilots from Argentina's Aerolineas Argentinas are refusing to fly them.
The Malaysian government ordered an urgent review of orders for several MAX aircrafts by flag carrier Malaysia Airlines.
Several airlines have said they are not cancelling MAX 8 flights, however, while US carriers appear to retain confidence in the manufacturer.
Boeing has described the MAX series as its fastest-selling family of planes, with more than 5,000 orders placed to date from about 100 customers.
But not since the 1970s - when the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 had successive fatal incidents - has a new model been involved in two deadly accidents in such a short period.
The weekend crash sent Boeing shares nosediving as much as 12 percent on Monday.
The plane involved in Sunday's crash was less than four months old, with Ethiopian Airlines saying it was delivered on November 15.
US plane maker Boeing is facing questions over the safety of one of its key aircraft models after an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed killing 157 - the second disaster involving a 737 MAX 8 in just five months. Pictured: The crash scene yesterday
Aftermath: Parts of the plane's landing gear lie in the soil at the crash site some 40 miles from Addis Ababa
It went down near the village of Tulu Fara, some 40 miles (60 kilometers) east of Addis Ababa.
Inhabitants of the remote area looked on from behind a security cordon as inspectors searched the crash site and excavated it with a mechanical digger.
The single-aisle Boeing jet had left a deep, black crater.
Ethiopian Airlines said the pilot was given clearance to turn around after indicating problems shortly before the plane disappeared from radar.
Mulugeta Gatechew (pictured) was the main pilot on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
The airline's chief executive Tewolde GebreMariam said the plane had flown in from Johannesburg early Sunday, spent three hours in Addis and was 'dispatched with no remark,' meaning no problems were flagged.
The crash cast a pall over a gathering of the UN Environment Programme as it opened in Nairobi - at least 22 staff from several UN agencies were on board the doomed flight.
Delegates hugged and comforted one another as they arrived at the meeting with the UN flag flying at half-mast.
Other passengers included tourists and business travelers.
Kenya had the highest death toll among the nationalities on the flight with 32, according to Ethiopian Airlines. Canada was next with 18 victims.
There were also passengers from other countries including Ethiopia, Italy, the US, Britain and France.
Among those on board was Italian archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa, 66, his wife Valeria Patrizia Li Vigni was quoted as saying by the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
On Sunday, 'the friends I met at mass said I shouldn't worry because bad news travels fast,' she said.
'In the end it arrived anyway, and it destroyed my life. I felt the disaster coming... He hadn't even wanted to go.'
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