On Sunday, a 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed near Addis Ababa killing 157 people, including four Indians
British travel operator TUI confirmed that all of its 737 Max 8 fleet has been grounded
At least 18 airlines have grounded their 737 MAX 8 planes. The Boeing website shows a list of more than 60 airlines that use the model. Ryanair, Air Europa, Air Canada, Qatar Airways are among them
The statement did express the company's condolences to the relatives of the 157 people who died, however.
One of the aircraft, operating as Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, crashed Sunday southeast of Addis Ababa shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew members aboard
Garg, 32, had given over six years to the issue of climate change and sustainable development being a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme and attached to the Environment Ministry
This is for the second time in less than five months that a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane crashed. In October 2018, an aircraft operated by Lion Air crashed killing over 180 people in Indonesia
Four Indians, including a UN consultant attached with the Environment Ministry, were among the 157 people killed when a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed after taking-off from Addis Ababa
An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board
The office issued a statement Sunday morning saying the Boeing 737 was on a regularly scheduled flight when it crashed
The plane had departed from Miami and was likely only minutes away from landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
The plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway while trying to land at Fath airport in Alborz province, just east of Tehran
The crash, the world's first of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet, killed all 189 people on board and the main wreckage and second 'black box' were not recovered in an initial search
Meanwhile, drones and sonar technology has been deployed the Java Sea to search for the remains of the downed plane which crashed on Monday
The 2-month-old Boeing plane plunged into the Java Sea on Monday just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board
Jet Airways, SpiceJet operates the Boeing 737 MAX 8
The Boeing-737 MAX vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, plunging into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to return to the Indonesian capital
Monday's disaster was a blow to the country's aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and US
India born Bhavye Suneja had joined Lion Air in Jakarta in March 2011
The aircraft was reported to be a Boeing 737 MAX 8, a model only in use since 2016