A brand-new Ethiopian airlines plane bound for Nairobi crashed, killing all 157 people on board, including eight Americans and 18 Canadians. The recently acquired aircraft was the same Boeing 737 Max 8 model involved in a crash in Indonesia in October.
Preliminary investigation into that accident focused on a malfunctioning sensor and computer system that pushed the plane's nose down.Flight data from the Ethiopian crash appears to show a similar erratic flight path to the Indonesia crash, with the plane first ascending, then descending, then ascending sharply before it fell from the sky.
"It is a brand-new airplane, it had no technical remarks and was flown by a senior pilot and there is no cause we can see at this time," he added, saying the plane was only four months old, had flown 1,200 hours so far and had arrived from Johannesburg that morning. The airline set up emergency hotline numbers for families and friends of victims and changed the cover image on its Facebook page to black.
The Max model is the newest version of Boeing's workhorse 737 model, the world's most popular commercial aircraft. The full investigation is expected to be completed later this year, likely in November, Indonesian officials say.
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