March 26, 2019, 9:59 PM GMT By Janelle GriffithA Boeing 737 Max 8 plane — the same model that the Federal Aviation Administration grounded after two recent crashes — made an emergency landing at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. No passengers were on the jet, only two pilots for the plane's owner, Southwest Airlines. The flight was scheduled to fly to Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, for short-term storage, according to the spokesman. The FAA on March 13 grounded the Boeing 737 Max jets after it found that a Ethiopian Airlines aircraft that crashed on March 10 had a flight pattern very similar to a Lion Air flight that went down in Indonesia in October. Under the FAA order, airlines are allowed to fly the jets without any passengers to a base for a purpose of storage or maintenance.

Source: Ethiopian News March 26, 2019 21:56 UTC