Ethiopian: Aviation Administration and Flight

ethiopian: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press The erratic, six-minute flight of the Ethiopian Airlines plane convinced the Federal Aviation Administration that it was close enough to what preceded the Oct. 29 crash of another Max off the coast of Indonesia to warrant concern, according to The Toronto Star. After reviewing the data it became clear to all parties, actually that the track of the Ethiopian Airlines flight was very close and behaved very similarly to the Lion Air flight, agency Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell said Wednesday. The data was critical in persuading the U.S. to join the rest of the world in grounding the jet, according to industry and regulatory officials.A new global satellite network capable of tracking planes from space captured the flight path of the Boeing Co. 737 Max that crashed Sunday in Ethiopia and the data has been shared with investigative agencies, including some that have decided to ground the jet. Canada's Transport Minister Marc Garneau also cited satellite tracking on Wednesday as the reason his country joined more than 50 other nations in grounding the 737 Max models. After years of development and the launches of 66 satellites into orbit, Aireon will introduce a new commercial flight-tracking service in coming weeks. Article Continued Below Where the Boeing 737 Max Can't Fly The data was provided by Aireon LLC, which was formed in 2012 by Iridium Communications Inc. and Nav Canada, a non-profit company that guides air traffic in Canada. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.