deadly crash in five months. the faa is resisting calls from some lawmakers and unions to temporarily stop the planes from flying. let s go to tom foreman is working the story for us. reporter: the u.s. seems to be standing virtually alone in defending the airplanes while the rest of the world is saying, get the flight data recorder open, get the voice recorder open, get some answers before these planes take off again. facing serious safety questions and brutal political headwinds, the boeing 737 max 8 is being grounded around the globe. in the united kingdom, the european union, asia, australia and more. in some cases, even other variants of the max line are being parked as many say they won t use the plane until they have additional information about the fatal crash in africa on sunday and the one last fall in indonesia.