And if the cause of these crashes is not discovered and solved quickly, the case for allowing 737 Max 8s to continue fly becomes ever weaker. On March 10, Ethiopian Flight 302 -- a 737 Max 8 -- fell from the skies six minutes after takeoff Sunday on its way to Nairobi – killing 157 people. Regulators and airlines outside the U.S. are grounding their 737 Max variants -- representing about a third of the 350 737 Max 8s that were in service. The "bulk" of the global 737 MAX fleet was grounded by March 12, according to according to the Wall Street Journal. On the morning of March 12, the UK Civil Aviation Authority grounded the 737 MAX, according to MSNBC.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2019 14:22 UTC