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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has acted after Boeing recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after take-off from Denver over the weekend.
Shares in US-based Raytheon, the parent company of Pratt & Whitney, had suffered a 2.9 per cent drop as of 6.20am EST in a blow to one of the main players in the aircraft engine market.
The footage captured by Naru Kurokawa, 40, in Japan, has resurfaced amid calls from Boeing to ground its entire global fleet of 777-200s which use Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines.