The White House announced Tuesday that President Trump is nominating former Delta executive Steve Dickson as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. The move comes a week after the FAA announced that it would ground all Boeing 737 Max planes after a Ethiopian Airlines crash killed 157 people. "Captain Dickson is a strong advocate for commercial aviation safety and improvements to our National Airspace System, having served as chairman of several industry stakeholder groups and Federal advisory committees," the White House statement said. More recently, the FAA was urged to ground Boeing 737 Max planes after several other countries chose to do so last week. Mr. Trump announced Wednesday that the FAA is grounding all Boeing 737 Max planes "effective immediately," saying that the decision was reached after new information came to light, and that federal aviation officials and Boeing's leadership agreed with the move.

Source: Ethiopian News March 19, 2019 21:14 UTC