On Sunday, the company's CEO Tewolde GebreMariam said captain Yared Mulugeta Gatechew, 29, was an experienced aviator with more than 8,000 flight hours. The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines plane 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.ĭemssie told AFP the pilots of the doomed flight had been trained.įor "every new technology, we provide training at Ethiopian Airlines," he said. 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.ĪLSO READ | India bans Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft after Ethiopian Airlines crash "Many of them, families and friends, they arrived, and they are on site."Įxperts have pointed out similarities to the crash of an Indonesian Lion Air jet last October, 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 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 at the crash site.
"We are going to send it to Europe, but the country is not specified yet," said Asrat.Īnother airline spokesman, Biniyam Demssie, said Ethiopia did not have the equipment to read the black box data, which it is hoped will provide crucial information about what happened.
In Ethiopia, families of victims were taken to the remote site Wednesday where the plane smashed into a field with 157 passengers and crew from 35 countries, leaving a deep black crater and tiny scraps of debris.Įthiopian Airlines spokesman Asrat Begashaw told AFP the company would decide by Thursday which country would examine the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder recovered from ill-fated Flight ET 302.ĪLSO READ | Ethiopian plane crash: UN consultant Shikha Garg's husband to bring back her mortal remains The move has heaped pressure on Boeing to provide proof the workhorse is safe.
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