Ethiopia backs crash pilots, urges Boeing to review controls
Transport minister says preliminary report shows the crew did all they could to avert crash
Addis Ababa — Ethiopian investigators have urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and say pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines carried out proper procedures in the first public findings on the crash of a 737 MAX jet that killed 157 people. The doomed flight repeatedly nosedived as the pilots battled to control the nearly full aircraft before it crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa in clear conditions, Ethiopian authorities said on Thursday. “The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but were not able to control the aircraft,” transport minister Dagmawit Moges told a news conference, presenting the outlines of a preliminary report. Investigators are expected to publish the report by Friday. Boeing’s top-selling aircraft has been grounded worldwide since the March 10 disaster, which came just five months after a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX crash in Indonesia that killed 189. An initial report into that accident also ra...
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