Within a span a five months, two Boeing 737 MAX crafts have crashed which have raised safety questions about the plane.
The recent crash of Ethiopian Airlines has brought a wave of Boieng suspensions by carriers across the world.
Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has also said that it will not give permission to any local airline to include the crafts to its fleet until the safety report comes out.
In 2018, a similar craft of Indonesian Lion Air crashed with all passengers perishing 13 minutes after take-off. The Ethiopian Airline plane crashed six minutes after take-off on Sunday.
Both the crafts were brand new.
The 737 MAX 8 began commercial operation in 2017.
In Bangladesh, US-Bangla Airlines took the initiative to lease Boeing 737 MAX planes but a definite date to bring the planes was not declared.
However, though US-Bangla declared decision to procure the planes, it did not make any formal application to the aviation regulator.
Speaking to Bangla Tribune, CAAB Director Chowdhury M Ziaul Kabir said, “We are watching the situation and so far, no Bangladeshi airline sought clearance to buy Boeing 737 MAX; if the probe report finds faults in the craft, then Bangladesh will not allow its usage.”
Britain, Germany and France was the latest to ground the aircraft on Tuesday following Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and Oman temporarily suspending it after China, Indonesia and others the day before.
Sunday’s disaster that left all 157 aboard the Ethiopian Airlines killed, has wiped billions of dollars off the market value of the world’s biggest planemaker.
Flight ET 302 came down in a field soon after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, creating a fireball in a crater. It may take weeks or months to identify all the victims, who include a prize-winning author, a soccer official and a team of humanitarian workers.
The United States has said it remained safe to fly the planes, and Boeing has said there is no need to issue new guidance to operators based on the information it has so far.
Ethiopian Airlines has grounded its four other 737 MAX 8 jets as a precaution.
Anxiety was also evident among some travelers, who rushed to find out from social media and travel agents whether they were booked to fly on 737 MAX planes - the same model in the Lion Air crash off Indonesia that killed 189 people in October.
If the black box recordings found at the Ethiopian crash site are undamaged, the cause of the crash could be identified quickly, although it typically takes a year for a full probe.
Nearly 40 percent of the in-service fleet of 371 Boeing 737 MAX jets globally is grounded, according to industry publication Flightglobal. That includes 97 jets in biggest market China.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a “continued airworthiness notification” for the 737 MAX on Monday to assure operators, and detailed a series of design changes mandated by Boeing after the Indonesia crash.