DNA analysis of victims of Ethiopian Air crash will take months, so victims families are being offered soil from crash site to bury in lieu of loved ones' remains.
Investigators have gleaned new information on the cause of the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash, including details on the jet's behavior in the moments leading up to the catastrophe. Meanwhile, with DNA confirmation of all passenger and crew remains still far in the offing, the carrier is offering bereaved families charred earth from the crash site to bury in lieu of their loved ones’ remains.
“He said he had a flight control problem. That is why he wanted to climb,” the source said in the article, adding that the voice, which belonged to either Captain Yared Getachew or first officer Ahmed Nur Mohammed, sounded nervous. After starting the turn, the plane disappeared from radar at an altitude of 10,800 feet above sea level, the highest it reached during the six-minute flight. Addis Ababa’s runway is at a high elevation of around 7,600 feet, suggesting the doomed jet reached a maximum of 3,000 feet above the ground.
Families are being given a 1-kilogram sack of scorched earth taken from the crash sites, members of two different families told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid “possible government reprisal,” the article noted.
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