"At this early stage of the related investigation, it cannot be excluded that similar causes may have contributed to both events," the EU aviation agency said.
In a separate interview with the BBC, he called for all Boeing 737 MAX models to be grounded.Ī dozen airlines have grounded the plane, while Lebanon, Egypt, Serbia, Vietnam, New Zealand and Hong Kong on Wednesday became the latest countries to ban it from their airspace.Īll European Union countries, as well as major hubs such as the United Arab Emirates and Australia have already done so. "There are a lot of questions to be answered on the airplane." Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, Tewolde told CNN Wednesday there were "significant similarities" between the Lion Air and ET 302 crashes. The captain immediately disconnected the autopilot and straightened the plane.īiniyam Demssie, another spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines, told AFP the pilots had received the relevant training.įor "every new technology, we provide training at Ethiopian Airlines," he said.Īirline CEO Tewolde GebreMariam on Sunday said captain Yared Mulugeta Getachew, 29, was an experienced aviator with more than 8,000 flight hours.
The Ethiopian Airlines pilots reported similar difficulties before their aircraft plunged into the ground.īoeing came in for criticism after the Lion Air crash for allegedly failing to adequately inform 737 pilots about the functioning of the anti-stalling system.Īccording to anonymous pilot reports on a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) database seen by AFP, several American pilots reported problems with the same system in late 2018.ĭuring one incident, a co-pilot said that shortly after take-off, when autopilot was engaged, the plane suddenly began pointing downwards. Questions have honed in on an automated anti-stalling system introduced on the 737 MAX 8, designed to automatically point the nose of the plane downward if it is in danger of stalling.Īccording to the flight data recorder, the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 struggled to control the aircraft as the automated MCAS system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down following takeoff.
The Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 was less than four months old when it went down six minutes into a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on Sunday, disintegrating on impact.Īsrat said families of the victims from Kenya, China, America, and Canada, as well as diplomatic staff from embassies, were visiting the crash site.Įxperts have pointed out similarities with a crash in October when an Indonesian Lion Air jet went down, killing 189 passengers and crew.īoth planes reportedly experienced erratic steep climbs and descents as well as fluctuating airspeeds before crashing shortly after takeoff. The airline said Ethiopia does not have the equipment to read the black box data that could provide crucial information about what happened. "We are going to send it to Europe, but the country is not specified yet," said Asrat. In Ethiopia, distraught families wept and lit candles as they visited the deep black crater where the plane smashed into a field, killing 157 passengers and crew, an AFP correspondent said.Įthiopian Airlines said it would decide by Thursday which country would examine the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder recovered from ill-fated Flight ET 302, spokesman Asrat Begashaw told AFP.
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