Boeing called to ground its entire line of planes associated with a tragic Ethiopian Airlines crash earlier this week minutes after President Trump announced they were no longer allowed in U.S. airspace.

The Washington-based aviation giant maintained it has “full confidence in the safety” of its 737 Max 8 and 9 lines — but said after speaking with the Federal Aviation Administration and other authorities that it was calling on airlines to ground them all out of “an abundance of caution.”

The FAA followed quickly with a statement saying that it had ordered the grounding of all such planes in the U.S. or operated by U.S. airlines.

“The agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today,” the FAA said, referring to the Ethiopia crash that killed 157 people. “This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.”

Trump had announced shortly beforehand, “All of those planes are grounded, effective immediately.”

Many nations in the world had already barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 from its airspace, but until now, the Federal Aviation Administration had been saying that it didn’t have any data to show the jets are unsafe.

The Boeing Max 8 and 9 planes account for only 1 percent of air traffic at Logan Airport, Massport said Wednesday. Three airlines — American, Southwest and United — each normally fly a handful of these planes out of the Boston airport.

Trump said any plane currently in the air will go to its destination and then be grounded.

Trump said the decision to ground the aircraft “didn’t have to be made, but we thought it was the right decision.”

He said the safety of the American people is of “paramount concern.”

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