An Ethiopian Airlines official said the choice to send the black box to Europe and not the US was a strategic one for the airline and government.
:"The BEA has experience with global air crashes, and its expertise is often sought whenever an Airbus plane crashes because the manufacturer is based in France."REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer, US and Ethiopian aviation safety officials discussed on Tuesday whether the data recorders"would go to would go to Washington or London for download and analysis."
The decision is unusual, as France and other European countries typically deal with investigations into incidents involving European plane manufacturers, such as Airbus.on Wednesday. Ethiopia announced that it would send the flight recorders to Europe as the US Federal Aviation Administration continued to express confidence in the plane, even as countries around the world and the European Union banned the planes from their airspaces.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in its decision to ground the planes that similarities between the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes"warrant further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents that needs to be better understood and addressed."
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