More airlines ban Boeing 737 MAX jets

But the manufacturer says no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies

Australia, Singapore and the United Kingdom on Tuesday banned Boeing 737 MAX planes from their airspaces and airlines around the world grounded the jets following a second deadly accident in just five months.

On Sunday, a new Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 went down minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board. It came after a Lion Air jet of the same model crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189.