The FAA stated that it had made this decision in consultation with aviation regulators around the world.
However, aircraft of this model will only be allowed to take off again once their computer software has been updated and the pilots have received appropriate training in flight simulators, according to an FAA order.
Both the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash of the Indonesian airline Lion Air in October 2018, which killed 189 people, and the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash of the Ethiopian airline Ethiopian Airlines in March 2019, which 157 people lost their lives, the plane quickly began to fly down and landed. After the second disaster, regulators around the world banned liner flights of this model.