A preliminary report obtained by CNN shows significant similarities between Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air disasters as pilots battled Boeing flight control system
The pilots on board Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 battled the plane's automated systems for nearly the entire duration of the 6-minute flight, according to a preliminary report into the crash obtained by CNN on Thursday.
Unable to stabilize the 737 Max 8 plane even after following the emergency procedures recommended by Boeing, the pilots tried together to pull the jet's nose up repeatedly during the last moments of the flight, the preliminary report revealed. But the downward force of the aircraft was too great to overcome. The captain called out"pull up" three times to tell the second-in-command to raise the nose.
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