China Eastern and two subsidiaries have grounded their fleet of more than 200 Boeing 737-800 jets. An airline official said the move was more an emergency reaction to the crash rather than a The narrow-body airliner Boeing 727 was the commercial jet with the highest number of fatal hull losses from 1959 to 2020, recording 56 accidents around the world. During this period, only one The Boeing 737-800 airliner bound for Kyiv took off at 6:12 a.m. from Tehran's Imam Homeini International Airport but got into trouble just two minutes into the flight, according to flight trackers. December 22, 2009: American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800, overran the runway in heavy rain at Kingston, Jamaica, during landing and came to rest on an access road just short of the Caribbean Sea, with its fuselage broken in three. More than 40 people were injured. After this week’s crash, China Eastern grounded all of its 737-800s, China’s Transport Ministry said. Boeing 737 Max jets, which first flew in 2017, were grounded after crashes in 2018 and 2019. In each case, flight-control software pushed the nose down shortly after takeoff, and pilots couldn’t regain control. That software is not on 737 Boeing has grounded its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft after two fatal crashes. Pilots of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max were unable to prevent the plane repeatedly In 2013, one of its Boeing 737-800 jets missed the runway while landing on the resort island of Bali, crashing into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 people on board. Half of Boeing's sales come from the 737 Max According to Boeing and the FAA, the problem first became apparent during testing of a newly manufactured 737 Max 8, which had yet to be delivered to 9DXtNg.