Beijing - China and South Korea on Monday proceeded with strong measures on the safety of the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, followed by the second deadly crash in Ethiopia of that model in five months.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China announced the temporary suspension of the jets from this Monday at 18:00 local time and the 60 used in national routes will leave the fleet until they have the absolute certainty that they will not present problems.

That entity will communicate with its U.S. counterpart and the Boeing company to review the devices, purchased in 2017, because it is concerned that Sunday's tragedy in Addis Ababa as well as that occurred in October in Indonesia occurred just after takeoff.

With the same concern, the Ministry of Transport of South Korea kept the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets on the ground and subjected them on Monday to an exhaustive check of their systems, in order to detect possible deficiencies and corroborate that they operate safely.

The ET302 flight of Ethiopian Airlines crashed this Sunday morning shortly after taking off from Nairobi, capital of Ethiopia.

As a result, the eight crew members and 149 passengers fron 33 different nationalities, including eight Chinese, died in the accident.