The voice of a flight to Ethiopia collapsed during the recording: report

ADDIS ABABA:

Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which killed 157 people, had an unusually high speed after take-off before the plane reported problems and asked for permission to board quickly, a source said. listened to the air traffic control registration.

A badpit voice from the Boeing 737 MAX asked to climb to 14,000 feet above sea level, or about 6,400 feet above the airport, before urgently asking to get in , the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the record was part of an ongoing investigation. .

The plane disappeared from the radar at 10,800 feet.

"He said he had a flight control problem, which is why he wanted to ride," said the source, adding that no additional details had been provided on the problem and that the voice seemed nervous.

According to experts, pilots generally ask to climb when they encounter problems near the ground in order to gain some leeway and avoid any difficult terrain. Addis Ababa is surrounded by hills and immediately to the north, Entoto Mountains.

The New York Times announced that Captain Yared Getachew's voice was on the record, but that the Reuters source was unaware of his voice or that of the first officer Ahmed Nur Mohammod Nur, who could have checked which man was talking. However, it was still the same voice, the source said.

The US Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday followed other states in the grounding of the 737 MAX, citing satellite data and evidence revealing some similarities and "the possibility of a common cause." "with the accident of Lion Air in October, which had killed 189 people.

On Saturday, investigators began to study the voice recorder in the badpit. Along with the flight data recorder, the information will be evaluated by the Ethiopian authorities, by Boeing teams and by the US and EU aviation security authorities in an attempt to determine the cause of the accident.

HIGH SPEED, CLIMBING IN CLIMBING

The Ethiopian flight had to follow the Standard Instrument Departure (SID) from the airport and follow the usual procedure with first contact just after departure, the source said. Everything seemed normal.

After one or two minutes, the voice of the air traffic control recording asked to stay on the same path as the runway and climb up to 14,000 feet, the source said.

The ground speed of the aircraft after departure was unusually high, the source told Reuters, reaching about 400 knots instead of 200 to 250 knots, minutes after departure.

"It's way too fast," the source said.

Not more than two minutes later, the air traffic controller was in communication with another aircraft when the voice of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 stopped, indicating "pause, pause" – signaling that other non-urgent to cease. He looked very scared, said the source.

"He asked permission to go in. The air traffic control gave him permission to turn right because the left is the city," he said. "Maybe a minute has pbaded before the flashing dot disappears on the radar."

After starting the turn, the aircraft disappeared from the radar at 10,800 feet altitude, its highest level reached during the six-minute flight. The Addis Ababa runway is at a high altitude of about 7,600 feet, suggesting that the doomed jet reached an altitude of 3,000 feet in the sky.

The flight tracking website, FlightRadar24, contained data covering the first half of the flight, but was dropped to 8,600 feet.

Other satellite data following the aircraft have not been made public. In the Lion Air crash, investigators examine the behavior of a new anti-stall system installed on the 737 MAX, which led the plane to climb and lose altitude while the pilots competed for control of the automated system.

Boeing is expected to finalize a hotfix for this system from here a week to 10 days, sources said Saturday.

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