Progress in investigations have revealed that the black box from the flight has been found, Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed.
The black box or digital flight data recorder will provide the first clues as to what caused the Ethiopian Airlines plane to crash just six minutes after takeoff.
The flight’s cockpit voice recorder has also been recovered, the airline said.
Earlier in the day, the airline’s Manager in Charge of Operations in Kenya, Yilma Goshu Gobena, told reporters all Boeing 737-8 Max aircrafts operated by the airline had been grounded out of abundance of caution.
Kenya’s Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia who addressed the press alongside Gobena said a multi-agency disaster response team had been constituted to coordinate response, saying 25 families which lost their relatives in the plane crash had been notified.
The multi-agency team includes the government chemist who Macharia said would travel to Addis Ababa to help in the process of identifying bodies of the 32 Kenyans who died in the plane crash.