ADDIS ABABA (Halbeeg News)-The authorities of Ethiopian Airlines have said the black box data of crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane show “clear similarities” with same type ill-fated Indonesian plane.
The development comes a week barely after Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max crashed killing all 157 onboard.
Following the incident, several countries in Europe and the U.S. have grounded all Boeing 737 max 8 and 9 aircraft,
Ethiopia’s transport minister, Dagmawit Moges said on Sunday that the parallels would be the “subject of further study during the investigation.
“Clear similarities were noted between Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610, which would be the subject of further study during the investigation,” Dagmawit Moges told reporters.
Moges didn’t offer up specific details to support her claim, but she did say the government would release a detailed report within a month or so.
Boeing chairperson and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg said later in the day that the company was supporting the investigators, AFP reported.
The aircraft company was finalising a software update and training pilots, he added.
“Boeing is finalising its development of a previously announced software update and pilot training revision that will address the MCAS flight control law’s behaviour in response to erroneous sensor inputs,” he told reporters.
According to AFP says the reported similarities between the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8, killing all 157 on board, and the Lion Air crash in October of the same model of plane in Indonesia, leaving 189 dead, have raised serious doubts and triggered Boeing’s biggest crisis in decades.
The 737 MAX is a relatively new aircraft, having entered service only in May 2017 as Boeing’s answer to Airbus’s medium-haul A320 Neo.
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