New checks on two-hundred Boeing aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration in the United States has ordered immediate checks on more than two-hundred Boeing Seven-Three-Seven aircraft after a crash last month in Indonesia in which more than a-hundred people were killed.

Operators are being directed to check fasteners and bolts on the tail of newer models.

The Seven-Three-Seven is the world's most commonly used commercial jet aircraft, with nearly three-thousand delivered by Boeing in various models.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service