The F.A.A., which Ms. Chao oversees, waited three days to ground the fleet and was one of the last major regulators worldwide to do so. She flew back to Washington from a festival in Texas on March 12 on a 737 Max, in what seemed to be an endorsement of the plane’s safety. saw no basis upon which to ground these planes,” she said. They saw no data until the morning of Wednesday the 13th.”It was at that time, she added, that F.A.A. investigators discovered “new information on the first three minutes of the Ethiopian” flight that revealed “parallel conditions” involving the two accidents.

Source: Ethiopian News April 10, 2019 20:48 UTC