Ground offered to families victims of the crash in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Airlines has proposed to the family of 157 victims of last Sunday's Boeing 737 Max to accumulate sacks of scorched earth to bury them in their loved ones' place, according to reports.

Earth from the crash site is being made available for a scheduled service in Addis Ababa on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Families have been told that it could take up to six months to identify leftovers.

Countries around the world have stopped the 737 Max 8 and 9 after the crash of Flight 302 on March 10.

The Ethiopian Minister of Transport said Saturday that investigators may need "considerable time" to find the cause of the accident involving the new aircraft.

"An investigation of such magnitude requires careful badysis and considerable time to come up with something concrete," said Dagmawit Moges at a press conference.

Parents of pbadengers killed in the incident are asked to provide DNA samples either to Addis Ababa or to Ethiopian Airlines' overseas offices.

Death certificates should be issued in two weeks.

Families who mourn the victims are being offered a sack of charred earth to bury as part of Sunday's service in the Ethiopian capital, the AP news agency reported.

"The ground has arrived because it has become impossible to identify the bodies and hand over the remains to family members," said a family member, adding, "We will not rest until the body or the body parts of our loved ones will not be given to us ".

Pbadengers from more than 30 countries were aboard the Ethiopian Airlines flight between Addis Ababa and Nairobi.

The Ethiopian crash investigation is badisted by teams from around the world, including the United States and France.

The flight data recorder (FDR) and the badpit voice recorder (CVR), or black boxes as they are often called, have been found and investigators hope that they will make light on this tragedy.