So many operational questions were left behind after the Ethiopian Airline Boeing 737 MAX crashed few minutes from its departure killing all 157 passenger and their crew.
Two flight data recorders from Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 were found Monday, as airlines around the world began grounding Boeing 737 MAX 8s.
The data recorders are expected to enable investigators and experts piece together the last moments of the flight, and should help explain why the new plane crashed.
However Ethiopian Airlines said on Wednesday it would send the black boxes from its crashed Boeing 737 MAX abroad, while a Norwegian airline sought compensation from the U.S. plane maker after two thirds of that model were grounded globally.
In Ethiopia, which lacks the forensic capabilities of other countries, a spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines said the black box voice and data recorders recovered on Monday would be sent overseas for analysis.
“There is no capacity here so the black box will be sent elsewhere for analysis. The investigation team will decide where,” the spokesman told reporters.That could be in Europe, the company’s CEO.
U.S. officials said the black box devices suffered some damage but they were confident of some initial results within 24 hours of the data being downloaded.
More than a dozen relatives of those who perished in the crash, mainly Kenyans who have flown in, left Addis Ababa early in the morning to pay their respects at the rural crash site where Flight ET 302 came down in a fireball.