US plane maker Boeing is facing questions after an Ethiopian Airlines 737 crash on Sunday killing all 157 people on board. It was the second crash in five months involving a 737 Max 8, and comparisons are being drawn with a Lion Air accident in Indonesia last October. In response, China and Ethiopian Airlines have now grounded all planes of the same model. However, experts warn it is too early to say what caused the latest disaster.
Ethiopian Airlines has recovered flight data and voice recorders of the ill-fated flight ET302 that crashed Sunday six minutes after takeoff from Bole International Airport killing all the 157 persons on board. The airline announced the recovery of the Digital Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder in the latest information bulletin released at 1.40pm Monday.
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
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
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.