Largest Flight Attendant Unions Back Grounding of Boeing 737 Max
- United’s Union says lack of action hurts public confidence
- Second crash has caused uncertainty among passengers
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The nation’s largest unions for airline flight attendants have called on U.S. regulators to ground Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 aircraft until more is known about why a second plane crashed.
The Federal Aviation Administration should take action “out of an abundance of caution,” following the deadly March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max 8, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement Tuesday. Another union, representing American Airlines Group Inc. flight attendants, asked the carrier to “seriously consider” parking the Max 8 pending completion of an investigation, which comes just five months after a similar crash at Lion Air.