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Boeing crisis gets deeper as India joins others to ground 737 MAX jets

Eight of the top 10 countries with the highest number of airline passengers have either grounded or closed their skies to Boeing Co's 737 Max, with the United States and Japan being the exceptions

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BS Web Team New Delhi
Roughly two-thirds of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the world have been pulled from use by airlines and aviation regulators after the deadly crash of a 737 MAX passenger plane in Ethiopia on Sunday. The swift actions by authorities around the world were driven in part by concerns about a connection to a similar disaster involving a Max 8 in Indonesia last October, when a Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people aboard. The cause of Sunday's crash, which followed another disaster with a 737 MAX five months ago in