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Ethiopian Airlines cabin crew members are crying as porters carry the coffin of one of their colleagues, which was part of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed last week. (Tiksa Negeri / Reuters)
Paul Schemm
Foreign Night Editor based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
March 17th at 1:55 pm
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Ethiopian Minister of Transport said Sunday that information from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on March 10 indicated "obvious similarities" with the crash of the same type of plane in Indonesia in October.
Dagmawit Moges told reporters that the "black boxes" – the data and voice recorders – were in good condition and that enough data had been retrieved for the Ministry's Accident Investigation Bureau to release a preliminary report. within 30 days on what happened to flight 302.
"During the FDR investigation [flight data recorder], there are obvious similarities between Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia, which will be further investigated, "said Dagmawit.
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The first Ethiopian Airlines flight data, along with the satellite information found, indicated an irregular flight path during the six-minute flight of the plane before it crashed into the plane. a field outside the capital, Addis Ababa, killing the 157 pbadengers on board. .
The aircraft climbed and descended, then climbed back, while flying at a speed much higher than the normal take-off procedure. The pilot, Yared Getachew, was considered very experienced, with more than 8,000 flight hours.
There were enough similarities with the crash of the Lion Air plane in Indonesia in October, which also involved a Boeing 737 Max 8, for authorities around the world to immobilize the aircraft on the ground.
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Ethiopian investigators took the voice and data recorders Thursday to France, where they are badyzed by the Office of investigation and badysis on civil aviation safety.
Dagmawit said the US Transportation Safety Board was also involved in the badysis.
A preliminary report on the causes of the Lion Air accident revealed inaccurate data provided by a sensor, which caused the new automatic stabilization system of the aircraft to sting the nose of the aircraft. The pilots struggled to pull the plane and it crashed into the sea.
The remarks made by the minister Sunday suggested that a series of similar events could have caused the crash of Ethiopian Airlines.
In November, Boeing released a bulletin explaining how to reset the stabilizer if it began to lower the nose of the aircraft.
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