Black box data shows 'clear similarity' between Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes, Ethiopia’s transport minister says
By Paul Schemm Paul Schemm Overnight foreign editor based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email Bio Follow March 17 at 1:13 PM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday that data from the data and voice recorders on the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed last week shows “clear similarity” with the crash of the same type of plane in Indonesia in October.
Dagmawit Moges told journalists that the condition of the “black boxes” was good and that the data had been recovered from them. Initial data from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight as well as subsequent satellite information recovered showed an erratic flight path during the six minutes that the plane was in the air before it crashed into farmer’s field outside the capital, Addis Ababa, on March 10, killing all 157 aboard.
There were enough similarities to the crash of the Lion Air jet in Indonesia in October, which also involved a Boeing 737 Max 8, that authorities around the world agreed to ground the plane. Ethiopian investigators on Thursday traveled to France with the voice and data recorders, and they are being analyzed there by the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety.Like Washington Post World on Facebook and stay updated on foreign news
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