HEJERE, Ethiopia (1010 WINS) -- Customers using the travel website Kayak to book flights can now filter their search based on the type of aircraft they'd like to fly in -- or perhaps avoid.
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The move comes after a Boeing jet crashed and killed 157 people in Ethiopia.
Sunday's crash involved a Boeing 737 MAX 8, it's the same plane that was involved in a Lion Air flight slammed into the Java Sea in November.
“We’ve recently received feedback to make Kayak’s filters more granular in order to exclude particular aircraft models from search queries,” a Kayak spokeswoman said. “We are releasing that enhancement this week and are committed to providing our customers with all the information they need to travel with confidence.”
Kayak's move comes after some countries, including Canada, banned the planes from their airspace.
Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneu said data collected from the two crashes was enough to prompt a ban on the planes. He said new information indicates the Ethiopian Airlines plane's automatic system forced the nose to drop. Pilots on the Lion Air flight appear to have encountered the same problem.
"So if we look at the profile, there are vertical fluctuations, in the vertical profile of the aircraft and there were similarities in what we saw,'' Garneau said. ``But I would repeat once again. This is not the proof that is the same root problem. It could be something else.''
On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be grounding all Boeing MAX 7 and 8 jets, due to passenger concerns.
The president said the decision was "fact-based ... Very much working with other countries and airlines."
He added that the safety of the American people is of "paramount concern."
Trump said any plane currently in the air at the time of his announcement will go to its destination and then be grounded.