Ethiopia doubts the release of the report on the Boeing 737 Max

A preliminary report on the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane last month is about to be released, but the exact timing is uncertain, researchers seeking to clarify a disaster that shook the credibility of Boeing Co.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Transport said Monday afternoon that the report would not be released Monday, which contradicts a morning statement from the Foreign Ministry that an information meeting was scheduled during the day. Boeing said it would review the report after its publication.

The accident of March 10, the second in less than five months of a Boeing 737 Max 8, has triggered worldwide aircraft restrictions and investigations on how regulators have approved the fact that the plane was ready to fly. The first results could explain if the anti-lock system of the new model was the cause, since it worked badly during the fatal flight of Lion Air in Indonesia five months earlier.

According to people informed of the investigation, investigators who worked on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines concluded that the anti-blockade system had been activated during the flight and were looking for a key team that could explain why .

Preliminary data from Max's black box indicates that the MCAS, the maneuver feature augmentation system, was pressing the nose of the plane during the March 10 disaster, said people who asked not to to be named. the results are not yet public.

Boeing spent months perfecting the 737 Max's software, as Lion Air's accident data indicated that the stop-avoidance system had tipped the nose several times before the pilots lost the control. Boeing was close to a software solution when the plane of Ethiopian Airlines broke down.

The MCAS was designed to prevent the Max from going too high and getting stuck. The US Department of Transportation has begun an investigation into how this was approved as part of Max's certification in 2017, while the Department of Justice used a grand jury to gather information.