They find similarities in the data of crash black boxes in Ethiopia and Indonesia

Both vessels were Boeing 737 MAX 8s and several countries have already banned their use.

March 17, 2019

The preliminary report on the badysis of the black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and made 157 dead has "obvious similarities" with those of The Lion Air plane that crashed in October in Indonesia, said the Ethiopian minister. Transports, Dagmawit Moges.

"Clear similarities have been found, although it's early to give a decisive verdict," Moges said at a press conference held this Sunday in Addis Ababa, which lasted than three minutes, reported EFE.

The Minister did not specify what these similarities were and said that they would be "the subject of future investigations", although she specified that the results should be published in thirty days.

Moges said that he would not be able to give more details until his team returned from Paris, where the black boxes are being badyzed.

The press conference took place after France informed Ethiopia of flight ET302, which crashed a week ago shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, in Kenya, killing 157 people of 35 different nationalities, warehousemen and the crew.

The pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash reported "flight control" problems after take-off and requested an airstrip to return to Adis-Abeba airport.

"I ask for a return home, I request a vector (navigation system) to land," said the pilot, apparently panicked in the eyes of the controllers, according to the New York Times, a person who examined the communications between the ship and vessel. Control Tower.

On October 29, 2018, another Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Indonesian company Lion Air sank in the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 occupants.

On Sunday, Ethiopia held a mbadive symbolic funeral at the capital's Saint Trinity Church, attended by thousands of people, including relatives and friends of the victims, as well as Ethiopian Airlines personnel.

As no body was found after the accident, the authorities collected land in the accident area and each family buried a kilo, so that each victim has a "dead". a slab bearing his name at this place.

Boeing, which paralyzed deliveries of the 737 MAX 8 model last Thursday, has accumulated losses of more than $ 27,000 million in market capitalization this week.