(CNN) This past week reminded the world that grounding an entire type of airliner because of safety concerns is a big deal -- and it happens very rarely. It won't be possible to establish a definitive link until the investigation of the March 10 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in Addis Ababa is complete. Information from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder is now in Paris for analysis. When regulators take an entire type of plane out of service, it can have a huge economic impact on the maker of the aircraft and on airlines that that fly it. Here's a brief list of major airplane groundings over the past eight decades.
Source: CNN March 16, 2019 16:41 UTC