The United States will take "immediate and appropriate action on Boeing if necessary"

US aviation security officials announced on Monday that they would take immediate action when they identified security issues related to the Boeing 737 MAX 8, two of which crashed in five months .

"The Federal Aviation Administration continuously badesses and monitors the safety performance of US commercial aircraft", says the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a statement.If we identify a security issue, the FAA will take immediate and appropriate action"

Shortly after the start of the session on Wall Street, Boeing sank: the stock fell 7.90% to settle at 389.16 dollars at 1413 GMT, resulting in the Dow Jones, the main index of the New York stock market.

For its part, the company Ethiopian Arlines announced the recovery of the two black boxes of the plane crashed, the one that records the technical data of the flight and the one that records the conversations inside the cabin.

"We badume that we will find the cause of the accident in the black box data," the company said. Sunday's crash in a field near the town of Tulu Fara – 60 km southeast of Addis Ababa, where he took off for Nairobi – is yet another setback for Boeing.

UAn aircraft of the same model, a modernized version of the 737, a commercial success, also crashed a few minutes after the takeoff on October 29 on the Indonesian coast., a tragedy in which 189 people died. One of the black boxes of the aircraft of the Indonesian airline Lion Air reported problems with the speedometer.

After Sunday's crash, Ethiopian Airlines announced the immobilization of its other four Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Beijing on Monday urged Chinese airlines to suspend the flights of these aircraft, which could fly again when US authorities and Boeing confirm measures taken to effectively guarantee the safety of flights, "said the Administration of Chinese Civil Aviation.

So far, Boeing has delivered 76 copies of the 737 MAX 8 to Chinese airlines. The US company still has 104 orders for this country, which represents one-fifth of this model's global shipments. The US manufacturer has recorded a total of 5,011 orders for this device in the world, more than seven years of production at the current rate.

Indonesia has also decided to block its Boeing 737 MAX 8, as well as South Korea, on two aircraft of the local low-cost company Eastar Jet.
Many airlines, such as FlyDubai, Norwegian, Icelandair, Southwest, American Airlines and Air Canada, still operate with their 737 MAX 8s.

Boeing on the other hand announced that he was postponing the ceremony to present the new version of the 777 long action aircraft, the 777X, scheduled for Wednesday.

With information from EFE and AFP