March 24, 2019, 7:19 PM GMT By Jay Blackman, Kalhan Rosenblatt and The Associated PressAmerican Airlines has extended its grounding of the 24 Boeing 737 Max aircrafts in its fleet through April 24, the company said in a statement released Sunday. But today we believe that might not have been enough," said Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian Airlines chief. Ethiopian Airlines insists the carrier's pilots went through all the extra training required by Boeing and the FAA to fly the 737 Max 8 jet. In a statement, he said pilots were also made aware of an emergency directive issued by the FAA after the Lion Air crash, which killed 189 people. Ethiopian Airlines has said there is a "clear similarity" between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, citing preliminary information from the flight data recorder.

Source: Ethiopian News March 24, 2019 19:18 UTC