Ethiopian airlines crash
Ethiopia says faulty sensor reading preceded Boeing crash
Ethiopia's report said two sensors recording the plane's angle differed in their readings by 59 degrees. The erroneous reading was followed by the activation of...
Many of the relatives are now pressing for the farmland where the plane crashed to be turned into a permanent memorial.
Boeing has yet to complete a certification test flight and formally submit its software upgrade and training changes to US aviation regulators for approval.
The company did not indicate when it first became aware of the problem, and whether it informed regulators.
Dozens of families are already suing Boeing over the Lion Air crash, and three lawsuits have already been lodged over the Ethiopian Airlines crash by the families of two US citizens and a Rwandan.
The statements came hours after Ethiopian officials said pilots of a doomed plane had followed the company's recommended procedures prior to a crash that left 157 people dead.
'The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to control the aircraft,' Ethiopia's Transport minster Dagmawit Moges said, unveiling results of the preliminary probe into the crash.
The report may shed light on how a piece of cockpit software came back to life after pilots initially switched it off as they tried to save the doomed jet, people familiar with the matter said, placing both technology and crew in the spotlight.
The software known as MCAS is at the centre of accident probes in both the crash of Ethiopian flight 302 and a Lion Air accident in Indonesia five months earlier.
Embattled aviation giant Boeing pledged on Wednesday to do all it can to prevent future crashes as it unveiled a fix to the flight software of its grounded 737 MAX aircraft.
Boeing has flown test flights of its 737 MAX to evaluate a fix for the system targeted as a potential cause of the crashes, two sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
While pledging 'full and transparent cooperation to discover what went wrong,' Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam also hit back at reports critical of Ethiopian's safety record.
National carrier Garuda is the first airline to publicly announce plans to scrap an order since a total of 346 people were killed in 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 passenger jets have been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in the past five months in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed nearly 350 people.
Muilenberg says based on information provided from both the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines plane crashes, they are taking actions to fully ensure the safety of the 737 max.
Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said Sunday that a study of the flight data recorder retrieved from the Ethiopian plane had shown "clear similarities" to that of the Lion Air flight in Indonesia.
The investigation by the department's inspector general was launched after a Lion Air crash in October killed 189 people, the newspaper said, months before the 10 March crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane killed 157.
One week after the crash, relatives of the 17 Ethiopian victims gathered with hundreds of others at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.
Boeing has said it would roll out the software improvement 'across the 737 MAX fleet in the coming weeks.'