as the investigation continues as to the cause of sunday s plane crash in ethiopia that killed 157 people, some airlines around the world are already grounding their fleets of boeing 737 max 8 jets. both of the ethiopia jan planes black boxes are recovered and officials want to know if there s a link but another recent crash in indonesia. tom costello has the latest. reporter: it s one of the most sophisticated best selling planes in the world but the faa is under intense pressure as passengers, pilots and airlines ask whether the boeing 737 max 8 is safe after two brand-new planes crashed in just five months. on the ground in ethiopia the charred remains of et flight 302. the 737 max 8 headed for nairobi, kenya crashed six minutes after taking off from addis ababa. data transmitted by the plane showed very erratic vertical speed as the crew struggled to
we want to update you on the breaking news we re following out of african. ethiopia airlines confirms one of its planes crashed slightly after takeoff. flight 302 from addis ababa from nairobi carrying 140 passengers, eight crew members on board. it went down in the town of bishoftu, outside of the capital city. the boeing 737 looks similar to the one here took off the 8:38 local time. lost contact about ten minutes later. let s talk more with our aviation expert. glad to you have on to tell us more about what we know so far which is very little except to say that this plane was in flight for a very short amount of time. it was. this is what has turned to be a real tragedy for ethiopian aviation as a whole. to recap, this is ethiopian