Royal Air Maroc Grounds Boeing 737 MAX 8 Fleet Following Ethiopian Airlines Crash

It is the CEO of RAM himself, Abdelhamid Addou, who confirmed this to our colleagues at HuffPost, referring to "an ongoing maintenance operation".

Yet in early January, the Moroccan company had welcomed in a press release the reception of this aircraft. "We are pleased to receive the first 737 MAX of our company, which will soon be joined by three other aircraft of the same family. The new 737 MAX aircraft are strengthening our medium-haul fleet, which is the backbone of the Royal Air Maroc fleet."

Before yesterday’s crash, in which two Moroccans died, Ahmed Chihab, an official from the Ministry of the Environment, and El Hassan Sayouti, a university professor at the University of Hassan II in Casablanca, an aircraft of the Indonesian company Lion Air had suffered the same fate in the Java Sea, resulting in the death of 189 passengers and crew members.