Boeing
- Boeing shares are set to drop at least 9% when markets open on Monday, wiping about $21.5 billion off the company’s market capitalization.
- Questions are being asked about the manufacturer after its Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed on an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Kenya Sunday morning, the second deadly crash in recent months.
- 157 people died in the latest crash. Chinese aviation authorities told airlines on Monday to ground all flights involving the model in question.
Boeing shares are set to take a $21.5 billion hit after the second crash in six months involving one of its aircraft.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight to Kenya crashed on Sunday morning, killing 157 people and mirroring a similar incident in Indonesia last October. The US aircraft manufacturer’s safety record is now in question — Chinese aviation authorities told airlines to ground all flights involving Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 model.
"This tragic incident will be a massive hurdle for Boeing to overcome," said Jasper Lawler, head of research at London Capital Group.
Boeing shares are down 9% in pre-market trading as of 9 a.m in London (5 a.m ET) and are set to drag down the Dow with futures down 0.8%.
The company has postponed the debut of a new plane, the 777X Jetliner, which was planned for this week in light of the fallout from the Ethiopia crash.
Both flights involved brand new planes which crashed just a few minutes into their respective flights and is Boeing’s bestselling aircraft of its type. Boeing sold 580 737s last year, 72% of the company’s total deliveries.
The cause of the crash is not yet known. However, flight tracking website Flightradar24 detected that the flight had shown "unstable vertical speed" before crashing.
In October, a Lion Air flight carrying 189 people went down in Indonesia.
NOW WATCH: Here’s why McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sales skyrocket in March
See Also:
- An investment chief at $1 trillion Northern Trust lays out a strategy that’s survived every major market crash, including the Great Depression
- These are the 21 richest billionaires in China
- OECD cuts forecasts, warning that Trump’s trade war, China’s slowdown, and a fragile Europe are threatening to ‘derail’ the world economy
SEE ALSO: China grounds all its Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes following the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash
Source: Business Insider – cburroughs@businessinsider.com (Callum Burroughs)