You can bet that the FAA was in constant contact with Boeing. This wasn't one man making a decision with no shared information from various sources.

Above we read that Boeing asked the FAA to ground them. But earlier it was claimed that DT did the grounding. Which was it?

Ditto. The level of hysteria associated with aircraft incidents in unprecedented.

Daniel Elwell, acting head of the FAA, said enhanced satellite images and new evidence gathered on the ground led his agency to order the jets out of the air.

The data, he said, linked the behavior and flight path of the Ethiopian Airlines Max 8 to data from the crash of a Lion Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea and killed 187 people in October.

"Evidence we found on the ground made it even more likely that the flight path was very close to Lion Air's," Elwell told reporters on a conference call Wednesday.

Satellite data right after the crash wasn't refined enough to give the FAA what it needed to make the decision to ground planes, Elwell said. But on Wednesday, global air traffic surveillance company Aireon and Boeing were able to enhance the initial data to make it more precise "to create a description of the flight that made it similar enough to Lion Air," Elwell said.

From this article:

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-12/us-joins-ethiopian-led-investigation-at-plane-crash-site

They can bad-mouth the 737 all they want, but at least it ain't a V-22! ;)

That can't be true... or do you mean MAX 8 is about 2%???? Or...???

Yep max 8

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Flights per day


SW 160 of a total of 4000
AA 90 of 6700
United 40 of 4800

This is pretty much standard procedure when something like this happens. Especially when there are many lives lost. The DC-10 fleet was grounded when one of them had a number 2 engine failure that sent bits of the engine into and severed hydraulic lines and they lost all hydraulic power. The 787 was grounded after the battery explosions. The only surprise for me was that they weren't grounded by the FAA sooner. Many dollars will be lost from all of this and that is always the driving factor. What bothers me is they will likely find an electronic/software problem. When the first automated/glass cockpit airplanes were put into service, a common question in the cockpit was, "OK, now what's it doing"? Trying to make the airplanes safer by eliminating the human factor created a whole new set of problems to deal with. When UPS first got the 757, the pilots were told to use the automation as much as possible. When pilots went in for recurrent training, it was quite clear that their flying skills had deteriorated somewhat. In some cases a lot. They were then instructed that the time spent using automation was up to the discretion of the captain.

Osprey is nowadays a very very safe aircraft/rotocraft/ugly thing. But it took a while...

You are a much braver man than I am.

FAA Relents, Says It Grounded 737 Max Jets Based on New Data
FAA relents, grounds Boeing 737 Max jets after getting new satellite images and evidence from the ground.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-12/us-joins-ethiopian-led-investigation-at-plane-crash-site

Try this: https://flightaware.com/

I use it to track my kids flights into DC. They detail the aircraft being used as well.

Well, given that "these planes" are all grounded, I'd wager your chances of being on one of them is zero.

No way this will be resolved in 10 days.

This makes no sense.

Take a bus.

I would expect SW will substitute another plane in their inventory, if your flights were booked on the Max 8 or 9. A quick call to SW would probably clear it up.