HEJERE, Ethiopia—Britain, France, and Germany on March 12 joined a rapidly growing number of countries that have grounded a new Boeing plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines disaster or turning it back from their airspace, while investigators in Ethiopia looked for parallels with a similar crash just five months ago.
Pressure grew on the United States to take action over the Boeing 737 Max 8 as Asian, Middle Eastern, and then European nations and carriers gave in to concerns. Some cited customers frightened by the sight of the March 10 crash in clear weather that killed all 157 people on board.
