Ethiopian Airlines Black Boxes Showed 'Clear Similarities' With Lion Air Crash

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Source: WSJ

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Data retrieved from the black boxes of a crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane showed similarities to that from the Lion Air flight that plunged into the Java Sea in October, Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday, adding to the pressure on aircraft maker Boeing Co.

“Clear similarities were noted between Ethiopian Air Flight 302 and Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610, which will be the subject of further study during the investigation,” Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said. Both flights were on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

Ms. Moges declined to give details of the similarities that had been identified, including whether Boeing’s new anti-stalling software that has been associated with the Lion Air flight had been activated. She spoke after French air accident investigations bureau BEA had sent the data from both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder to Ethiopian authorities.

Investigators from both Ethiopia and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board have validated the data, she said, and a preliminary report on the accident will be published within 30 days. Representatives from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and its European counterparts were also present in the downloading of black box data.


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[SFnomad]

1. Do tRump and the Republicans have blood on their hands?

Boeing software update to fix nosedive problem 'had been delayed by US government shutdown', it's claimed, as firm faces compensation claims from airlines forced to ground jets

Boeing began working on the changes for Max 8 software after Lion Air disaster
The fixes were initially set to be announced in January, it has been reported
Officials claim work dragged with delays increased by US government shutdown
A second 737 Max 8 crashed after taking off in Ethiopia killing 189 on Sunday

[question everything]

2. Both Turtles do

She, the no nothing Secretary of Transportation; he - letting her boss run the country as if he is an absolute monarch

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211923435

Thirty-five Congressional mandates sit unanswered, on everything from minimum seat space to secondary barriers protecting cockpits. The top job at the Federal Aviation Administration has been open for 14 months. Enforcement fines against major U.S. airlines have dropped 88% in the past two years, even as three-hour tarmac delays have more than doubled.

The Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao has seemingly been delayed on a number of issues important to travelers. Even with airlines begging for rules on emotional-support animals, and both Republicans and Democrats expressing concerns about swollen fees, shrunken seating and punitive airline policies, the DOT has been loath to issue new regulations.

[Mr. Sparkle]

3. This is what many people had suspected and feared.

According to Ethiopian Airlines, their pilots were trained with the fixed procedure after the Lion air crash. Yet they still crashed. Boeing is in a world of trouble imo.

[paleotn]

4. Seems the air force isn't all that happy with Boeing either....

There appears to be a cultural problem at Boeing.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-tanker-jets-grounded-due-to-tools-and-debris-left-during-manufacturing/



https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/air-force-boeing-refueling-plane/index.html

[nitpicker]

5. Link to DW

https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopian-airlines-737-max-crash-had-clear-similarities-with-lion-air-crash/a-47955798