Ethiopian Airlines pilot launched a desperate request three minutes after takeoff – 15/03/2019

Captain Yared Getachew immediately realized that something was not going at all. Knowing that the operation of this Boeing 737 Max 8 was too strange, too irregular, he immediately communicated with the control tower. He was scared because he knew that his life was in danger. He could not stay calm and with a broken voice he was asking permission to return to the airport.. The takeoff took place just three minutes ago and despite the positive reaction of the tower, there was no contact with the aircraft.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after taking off from Bole International Airport in Ethiopia on Sunday morning, killing 157 people and no survivors. In the last hours these last desperate words of transcended driver, comments from the first sources who had access to the audios of the black boxes of the ship.

As explained in a New York Times article, the pilot reported flight control problems one minute after take-off and two minutes later, he asked "with a panicked voice" for a landing pad to return to the airport of Addis Ababa, the country's capital.

"I ask to return to the airport. I ask the vectors (directions) to land ", the captain of the flight expressed with despair, according to the source in the US newspaper.

The report indicates that a strange movement of the aircraft began to register, which initially had an altitude lower than that required during takeoff, then he accelerated in an unusual way. Faced with the crisis, he immediately received permission to land.

That's when the ship changed position, climb to an unusual height, unfit on a plane preparing to go down to an airport. So he started swinging up and down suddenly go up and down several meters, according to an air traffic controller in the US media. Finally, he entered a military restricted area and disappeared from the radar. It took 5 minutes before take-off and the flight to Nairobi was tragically interrupted.

Despite his young age – he was 29 years old – and the youngest driver in the history of the Ethiopian company, Getachew has accumulated 8,000 hours of flying experience and he was dedicated to work.

The similarities between this accident and 737 other MAX 8s in Indonesia in October led regulators to the United States, the European Union, China, Turkey, Australia, Mexico or South Africa. South, among others suspended the flights of these Boeing aircraft until causes are clarified.

Precisely this Friday the work of badysis of the black boxes of the Ethiopian plane began in Paris this will clarify the causes of the accident and confirm if there is, as the preliminary data reveals, a link between the two accidents.

The badysis of the results of the civil aviation safety badysis (BEA) with the prestigious research and badysis agency (BEA), in the Paris region, suggests the future of the 737 MAX. was vetoed the airspace.

Friday, Boeing paralyzed deliveries of the model 737 MAX 8. The aerospace giant has accumulated this week a loss of more than 27,000 million dollars in market capitalization.

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