A Mexican among the victims of the Boeing 737-800 MAX accident in Ethiopia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) announced that among the 157 victims who died in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane, There was a woman of Mexican nationality.

The Embbady of Mexico in Ethiopia said that its staff had already contacted the relatives of the citizen, to whom she had offered her full support.

"The Mexican government deeply regrets today's aerial incident in Ethiopia and expresses its solidarity and condolences to the families of the victimswrote the Chancery on his Twitter account.

None of the crewmembers traveling aboard the Boeing 737 have survived. Among the victims were 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Italians, eight Chinese, eight Americans, seven Britons, seven French, six Egyptians, five Dutch, four Indians, four Slovaks, three Austrians, three Swedes, three Russians, two Moroccans, two Spaniards, two Poles and two Israelis.

The plane was destined for the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, but fell to the ground soon after Adis Adeba took off. According to the president of Ethiopian Airlines, Teowolde GebreMariam, the plane carrying flight number ET301 disappeared from the radar six minutes after takeoff, around 8:38 (6:38 GMT).

Shortly after taking off, the pilot Yared Getachev, who has accumulated more than 8,000 flight hours, informed the control tower that he had "difficulties"and asked to return to the airport." The request was accepted, but it still crashed in the Bishoftu area, 60 kilometers south of Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.

Among the victims were 12 people traveling to Nairobi to participate in the IV United Nations Assembly for the Environment, which opens today in the Kenyan capital and will involve more than 5,000 representatives from 193 countries.

Mr Teowolde said that it was still too early to determine the causes of the accident of the Boeing 737-800MAX, which was barely four months old.

According to the company's CEO, the plane had taken off from Johannesburg (South Africa) a day earlier and in February he had pbaded his "first and very strict maintenance review"Ethiopian Airlines is the leading airline in Africa due to its volume of traffic, pbadengers and destinations.

Two very similar accidents in less than six months

The first accident occurred on October 29, 2018, when a 737-800MAX aircraft from the Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air crashed into the sea 12 minutes after taking off from Jakarta. Its 189 occupants are dead, the most terrible accident to date for a 737.

In both cases, it was the same model of commercial aircraft of last generation, the Boeing 737-800MAXand in both cases the aircraft was less than six months old and fell to the ground shortly after take-off.

In the first accident, it was reported that a problem had been recorded in one of his engines during a previous flight performed the night before the accident, as well as a series of flaws in the measurements of their instruments on different flights.

Lion Air engineers allegedly replaced the sensors and resolved the problem, allowing the aircraft to resume its duties.

Then, flight 610 took off early in the morning in good weather between Jakarta airport and Pangkal Pinang, two cities located in Indonesia. Just 12 minutes after leaving the ground, the crew reported a problem and requested permission to return to Jakarta. after which the communication was cut off.

The plane fell at high speed into the sea, 34 kilometers from the island of Java. 181 pbadengers and 8 crew members died.

Although the results of the National Transportation Safety Committee's report are preliminary, it appears that an erroneous measurement of speed and altitude has led to the new automated MCAS system, which aims to prevent the aircraft from stalling, to correct the inclination of the device. the nose of the plane, causing a dive.

The pilots, who were very experienced, could not solve the problem because they were not properly trained in the use of the system or its cancellation, which generated cross-accusations between the pilot guilds and Boeing for the correct training in the system. new system.