Asked on NBC's "Today" show Thursday whether there was evidence the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights were brought down by the same cause, Elwell said: "We are much closer to that possibility, and that's why we grounded the airplanes. We got new information yesterday, and we acted on it. It is in our minds now a link that is close enough to ground the airplanes."

Source: Ethiopian News March 14, 2019 10:30 UTC