The "damned" Boeing had similar failures

The analysis of the data of the black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago, causing the death of the 157 people on board, shows that "there were clear similarities" with the accident in Indonesia. during the month of October, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Transport of Ethiopia. Both aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff, when the pilots reported problems related to flight control.

The 737 Max of Ethiopia reported flight control problems before his accident

In the Ethiopian case, the speed recorded on the aircraft after takeoff was unusually high, about 740 kilometers per hour. Two minutes after leaving the ground, the air traffic controller of the tower of Addis Ababa was in communication with another plane when the pilot of the injured flight interrupted him indicating that other non-urgent information should cease. The pilot, who seemed very frightened, according to the air traffic controllers, asked permission to return to the ground. Due to the tone of urgency with which he communicated, air traffic control gave him the green light to return, although the locator disappeared from the radar in less than a minute. The plane disappeared from the radar at an altitude of 3,300 meters above sea level, the highest point it reached during its six-minute flight, according to Reuters.

To this day, the air authorities around the world have banned the flight to more than 300 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft that circulated in the airspace. Thus, they remain on the ground waiting to know what exactly happened in the fatal accidents in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed almost 350 people and that Boeing downloaded new software to try to solve the alleged problems that the devices have with their control system. Of flight. This measure will take several weeks to implement, as announced by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).