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U.K. Suspends Boeing 737 MAX-8 After Ethiopian Airlines Crash

Becomes ninth country to ground troubled jet.

The U.K. has suspended operation of Boeing’s 737 MAX series of jets, including the model of jet that crashed in Ethiopia last weekend. “The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has been closely monitoring the situation, however, as we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights from any operator arriving, departing or overflying U.K. airspace,” the agency said Tuesday morning. The U.K. has joined eight countries and 26 airlines in suspending operation of the new 737 MAX-8, following Saturday’s fatal crash. The disaster came months after another 737 MAX-8 crashed in Indonesia. The FAA on Monday said it considers the plane airworthy.