In March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX, a passenger airliner that entered service in 2017, was grounded by aviation authorities and airlines worldwide after two crashes of the aircraft which killed 346 people in total. Seventeen months after the aircraft entered service, Lion Air Flight 610, a 737 MAX 8, crashed into the Java Sea twelve minutes after takeoff on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew. On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, another MAX 8, crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew.