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Agence France-Presse

Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week shows “clear similarities” with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same type of aircraft, Ethiopia’s transport minister said on Sunday.
While declining to give details, Dagmawit Moges told journalists the parallels would be the “subject of further study during the investigation,” with a preliminary report issued in “30 days”.




The announcement came a week after Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 plummeted into a field southeast of Addis Ababa minutes into its flight to Nairobi, killing all 157 people on-board.
The disaster caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft involved after aviation regulators noticed similarities with the October crash of an Indonesian Lion Air 737 MAX 8 that killed all 189 passengers and crew.
Both planes reportedly experienced erratic steep climbs and descents as well as fluctuating airspeeds before crashing shortly after take-off.
Grieving families given 1kg sacks of dirt from Ethiopia crash site of Boeing 737 MAX jet
Questions have honed in on an automated anti-stalling system introduced on the 737 MAX 8, designed to automatically point the nose of the plane downward if it is in danger of stalling.
The pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 struggled to control the aircraft as the automated MCAS system repeatedly pushed the plane’s nose down following take-off, according to the flight data recorder.
In the case of the Ethiopian flight, the black boxes have been handed to France’s BEA air safety agency, which is working with American and Ethiopian investigators to determine what went wrong.

The disaster in Ethiopia left families in 35 nations bereaved.
On Sunday, Ethiopians gathered at Holy Trinity Cathedral in the capital Addis Ababa to bury 17 of their citizens killed in the crash, including the eight-person flight crew.
Relatives of the deceased sobbed and held portraits of their loved ones as an Ethiopian Orthodox priest said the last rites.
Wearing a T-shirt bearing a photo of Amma Tesfamariam in her flight attendant uniform, Meselech Petros said her 28-year-old sister was not supposed to work last Sunday, but came in to cover for a friend.
“What I can’t forget is that she left an eight-month-old child and didn’t come back,” Meselech said.
“We are broken and hurting very much. It’s very difficult,” added Amma’s brother Selamsew Mathias, 26.
The funeral ceremony began when caskets draped in the Ethiopian flag were brought to the cathedral in a convoy of black hearses accompanied by hundreds of mourners.
It was unclear what the coffins contained.

Witnesses said the plane had nosedived into the field, with the force of the impact leaving few bodies intact.
On Thursday, as grieving families and friends visited the area where the plane went down, an AFP correspondent saw them being handed plastic water bottles filled with earth from the site.
Ethiopia’s government has said it may take up to six months to identify the remains.
“What makes us very sad is we didn’t find any of her remains,” said Teshome Legesse, whose 24-year-old niece Ayantu Girma was a flight attendant on the plane.
Ethiopian Airlines is Africa’s largest carrier and in many ways the international face of the nation.
The deaths have shocked Africa’s second-most populous country, and the funeral attracted a wide range of mourners.
“We all are children of Adam and Eve, even though our skin colours are different,” said Seyoum Kidanu, a retired police officer wearing full dress uniform and a sash in the colours of the Ethiopian flag.
“When one person dies in this world, the grief belongs to everybody.”


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Black box data from crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight shows ‘clear similarities’ with Indonesian 737 crash, authorities say

One of the two black box recorders of the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX which crashed minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa airport on March 10. Photo: AFP

Pallbearers and other people attend the burial ceremony of the Ethiopian Airline Flight ET 302 crash victims at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Orthodox church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Maheder Haileselassie

TOPSHOT - Mourners of victims of the crashed accident of Ethiopian Airlines react during the mass funeral at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 17, 2019. - The crash of Flight ET 302 minutes into its flight to Nairobi on March 10 killed 157 people onboard and caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft model involved in the disaster. (Photo by Samuel HABTAB / AFP)

Breaking with China, US declares Boeing 737 MAX 8 airworthy in wake of Ethiopia disaster

An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 lands at LaGuardia Airport on Monday morning on a flight from Miami to New York City. Photo: AFP

RENTON, WA - MARCH 11: A Boeing 737 MAX 8 is pictured outside the factory on March 11, 2019 in Renton, Washington. Boeing's stock dropped today after an Ethiopian Airlines flight was the second deadly crash in six months involving the Boeing 737 Max 8, the newest version of its most popular jetliner. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images/AFPs == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. A spokesman says Ethiopian Airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as a safety precaution, following the crash of one of its planes in which 157 people were killed. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

China grounds Boeing planes after fatal crash

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 (ET-AVM), the same aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, is seen at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when it was first delivered in July.

Boeing presents its first 737 Max aircraft completed in its plant in the eastern Chinese city of Zhoushan in December. 

Chinese airlines have taken close to 100 of Boeing's 737 Max 8 planes. 

Boeing shares plunge after second deadly crash of its 737 MAX 8

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 11: An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, on a flight from Miami to New York City, comes in for landing at LaGuardia Airport on Monday morning, March 11, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. Boeing's stock dropped more than 12 percent at the open on Monday, a day after a second deadly crash involving the Boeing 737 Max 8, the newest version of its most popular jetliner. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

FILE PHOTO: A Jet Airways Boeing 737-800 passenger plane moves on the runway as a man walks past at an airport in New Delhi, India, August 27, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

People mourn during a memorial ceremony for the seven crew members who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident at the Ethiopian Pilot Association Club in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 11, 2019. - Airlines in Ethiopia, China and Indonesia have grounded their Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets on March 11, as investigators recovered the black boxes from a brand-new passenger jet that crashed outside Addis Ababa a day earlier, killing all 157 people on board. (Photo by - / AFP)

NYSE Floor Governor Rudy Mass (second from right) works with traders at the post that handles Boeing, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Photo: AP/Richard Drew

Boeing’s 737 MAX 8: who’s grounding, who’s still flying troubled jet after Ethiopia crash

Southwest Airlines, which operates 34 of the 737 MAX 8 planes, said: ‘We remain confident in the safety and airworthiness of our fleet’. Photo: AFP

The tails of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen at a Boeing production facility in Renton, Washington, U.S., March 11, 2019. REUTERS/David Ryder

epa07428455 (FILE) - People celebrate the delivery of a Boeing 737 Max 8 airliner for Air China, the first product of the new 737 Completion and Delivery Center jointly run by Boeing and its Chinese rivalry Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), in Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang province, 15 December 2018 (issued 11 March 2019). China grounded all Boeing 737-8 planes on 11 March 2019, for safety concerns after an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crashed minutes after take-off on 10 March 2019. EPA-EFE/STRINGER CHINA OUT

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Country’s transport minister says a preliminary report into the crash that killed 157 people will be issued in 30 days


Country’s transport minister says a preliminary report into the crash that killed 157 people will be issued in 30 days.


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