President Trump has issued an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 including planes associated with that line after new evidence came to light. "'The safety of the American people, of all people, is our paramount concern,' Trump said, adding that the grounding would take effect as soon as the planes landed and would continue until further notice." The Canadian Minister of Transport announced a similar ban on the Boeing planes based on "a result of new data that we received this morning, and had the chance to analyze." CNN is reporting that satellite company Aireon provided the data showing the Ethiopian plane's flight position data. Aireon doesn't analyze the information captured by its satellites. Jessie Hillenbrand, director of Public Relations at Aireon said, "'aircraft transmits its position twice a second, our satellites catch it. We have caught that data in real time and provided that to authorities.'"

Boeing announced support of the action to temporarily ground 737 MAX operations "out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft's safety." The company expressed full confidence in the safety of the 737 MAX as it "recommend to the FAA the temporary suspension of operations of the entire global fleet of 371 737 MAX aircraft." Other countries had grounded the planes earlier this week after the second Boeing 737 MAX accident in 4 months.