Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has grounded the entire global fleet  its 737 Max aircraft. The move follows last week's fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash. That was the second time  five months a 737 Max has crashed. Last October, a plane  the Indonesia-based carrier Lion Air crashed  what aviation experts are saying are similar circumstances. Investigators have recovered the black boxes  the crash site  Ethiopia and will study the data in them to ascertain the reason  the aircraft falling from the sky. Dan Elwell, a spokesman  the USA's Federal Aviation Administration, said: "It became clear…that the track  the Ethiopian Airlines flight was very close and behaved very similarly to the Lion Air flight."
Boeing has huge hopes  the 737 Max and views it as a key part  its future. The Max started flying commercially  2017. Boeing has received  5,000 orders for the aircraft and has delivered 371 to date. News  the grounding has been disastrous  Boeing's finances. The company's market value has plummeted  nearly $26 billion since the crash  Ethiopia. Boeing president, chief executive and chairman Dennis Muilenburg said: "We are doing everything we can to understand the cause  the accidents (in partnership  the investigators), deploy safety enhancements, and help ensure this does not happen again." Boeing said that it "continues to have full confidence  the safety  the 737 Max".