Ethiopian Airlines crash: ‘similarities’ with Lion Air crash discovered by investigators, officers say – Tek Portal

Dagmawit Moges reported that investigators have recovered all related facts from the black containers.
Moges did not supply extra facts about the purported “similarities” involving the two crashes but mentioned they would be “issue to even further investigation.”
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed March 10, 6 minutes immediately after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. It was the next catastrophe involving a new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in significantly less than six months.
In Oct, all 189 persons on board Lion Air Flight 610 ended up killed when the flight went down about the Java Sea in Indonesia 13 minutes right after takeoff.

Similarities involving the two incidents — each of which continue being beneath investigation — led aviation authorities close to the environment to ban the use of 737 Max 8s.
Investigators suspect the Lion Air crash may have been caused by an angle of assault sensor on the outdoors of the airplane that transmitted incorrect facts, which could have brought on automatic flight software program known as the Maneuvering Attributes Augmentation Method, or MCAS, that compelled the plane’s nose down.
In accordance to a preliminary report on the crash, the pilots very first manually corrected an “automated plane nose down” two minutes following takeoff and performed the exact same method once more and once more just before the plane hurtled nose-initially into the Java Sea, the report stated.

On Sunday, following Moges’ remarks, Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg issued a statement expressing the corporation “proceeds to aid the investigation, and is functioning with the authorities to consider new information and facts as it will become available.”
Muilenburg extra the corporation is “finalizing its progress of a earlier announced software program update that will handle the MCAS flight control law’s conduct in reaction to erroneous sensor inputs.”
Ethiopian Airways CEO Tewolde GebreMariam has formerly reported the pilot of Flight 302 had “flight manage challenges” shortly in advance of the aircraft crashed.
“He was owning complications with the flight handle of the airplane, so he requested to return again to base,” GebreMariam stated. The pilot was granted authorization at the identical time the flight disappeared from radar.

CNN’s Anna Cardovillis documented from Addis Ababa, whilst Dakin Andone documented and wrote this tale from Atlanta. CNN’s Thom Patterson contributed to this report.

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