The flight pattern of Ethiopian Flight 302 on March 10 resembled that of a Lion Air plane that crashed in Indonesia in October – both were Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners. Current theories are that faulty sensors and software may have contributed to the crashes.
Preliminary information from the flight data recorder of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and killed 157 people shows «clear similarities» with an earlier disaster involving the same kind of Boeing aircraft in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday.
The disclosure came as thousands marched in the capital of Addis Ababa, accompanying 17 empty caskets at a funeral for the Ethiopian victims of Flight 302. The caskets were empty because authorities have said that recovering and identifying the remains will take months.
The crash of Ethiopian Flight 302 on March 10 and that of a Lion Air plane in Indonesia in October – both of them Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners – have prompted the United States and other countries to ground the aircraft.
