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March 17, 2019
Preliminary data retrieved from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines that crashed shows “a clear similarity” with an earlier crash in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister has said.
“The black box has been found in a good condition that enabled us to extract almost all the data inside,
The parallels would be the “subject of further study during the investigation,” with a preliminary report to be issued in
Officials say 157 people from 35 different Countries were killed when the Nairobi-bound plane crashed shortly after takeoff on March 11.
TheUnited States (US) and many other countries have now grounded theBoeing 737 MAX 8s.
Thecompany now faces the challenge of proving the jets are safe to fly amidsuspicions that faulty sensors and software contributed to the two crashes thatkilled 346 people in less than six months.
TheUS Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has already said satellite-basedtracking data showed that the movements of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 weresimilar to those of Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed into the Java Seaoff Indonesia in October, killing 189 people.
Theplanes in both crashes flew with erratic altitude changes that could indicatethe pilots struggled to control the aircraft. Shortly after their takeoffs,both pilots reported flight control problems and tried to return to theairports but crashed.
In the case of the Ethiopian flight,the black boxes have been handed to France’s BEA air safety agency, which isworking with American and Ethiopian investigators to determine what went wrong.
US officials said the FAA and USsafety agency the NTSB have not yet validated data from the black boxes.