Britain, the European Union, India and Australia have joined the growing list of countries temporarily barring the plane from their airspace.

Some families of the 157 people who died in last Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash have 

visited the site near Addis Ababa to lay flowers.

Experts are coming the wreckage in an attempt establish the cause of the crash – and particuarly to learn if there are similarities with the Lion Air crash outside the Indonesia capital Jakarta last October.

The US Federal Aviation Authority insists the Boeing 737 Max is airworthy.

However US Senators and aviation workers are urging the government to keep the plane grounded until the investigations can confirm this.

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority insists that the of aircraft is airworthy, but Mexico’a joined the list of countries – including South Africa – to ground the new Boeing 737 – pending a full; investigations.

Discovery of the voice and data recording boxes from the Ethiopian Airways flight that crashed near Addis Ababa on Sunday should give a picture of the last minutes of the ill-fated Boeing 737 Max.

The FAA mandates design changes to the plane after a  Boeing 737 Max crashed near Jakarta last October.

Boeing shares closed six percent down yesterday as more countries – including China, which is the second largest aviation market in the world – grounded the 737 Max.

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They’re hoping it will help explain why the nearly-new aircraft went down vertically into a ploughed field in perfect flying conditions.

Boeing’s under pressure to guarantee  passengers and airlines that its best-selling aircraft is safe.

The company’s shares have fallen nine percent in pre-market trading

There are similarities between yesterday’s crash near Addis Ababa and the downing of a Lion Air flight near Jakarta five months ago with the loss of 189 lives.

Both involved nearly-new Boeing 737 Max aircraft and occurred within minutes of take off after the pilots declared an emergency.

China and Ethiopia have grounded the Boeing 737 Max from their fleets pending an investigation.

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The Ethiopian Airlines plane is the second nearly new Boeing 737 Max to crash shortly after takeoff in less than five months.

Families of the 189 victims of the Lion Air crash at Jakarta airport blame Boeing and are suing the American plane maker.

The Boeing 737 Max crashed within minutes of taking off for Nairobi.

The cause is not known but the pilot reported problems before losing contact.

The victims come from more than 30 countries.

Many of them were heading for a United Nations conference opening in the Kenyan capital today.

The ill-fated plane, which was delivered last November,  had flown from Johannesburg earlier yesterday.

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China and Cayman Islands have also grounded the plane which was involved in another crash shortly after taking off from Jakarta airport less than five months ago. More than 180 people died there.

There is no hard evidence linking the crashes of the Boeing 737 Max of Ethiopian Airlines near Addis Ababa yesterday and the Lion Air flight at Jakarta last year.

But the US plane maker is under pressure to guarantee the safety of the new aircraft that is described as its best-selling to date.

The Lion Air crash has been put down to problems involving the automated stabilisation mechanism,

Investigators will be looking for any similarities with the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight. 

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Investigators will be looking the fact that the ill-fated Boeing 737 Max is the same make an model as the Lion Air flight that crashed shortly after take off in Jakarta less that five months ago.

Ethiopian Airlines is sub-Sahara Africa’s largest carrier with the  newest fleet.

It has a solid safety record. Nine years an Ethiopian Airliens plane crashed into the Mediterranean after taking off from Beirut with the loss of all 90 people aboard.

It is too early to offer reasons for today’a crash but it impossible not to take account of the cast that, like the Lion Air disaster that killed all 189 people aboard, it involved new aircraft from the same manufacturer.

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