Black boxes show ‘clear similarities’ between Ethiopia, Lion Air crashesADDIS ABABA: Black box data indicate "clear similarities" between last week's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet and the October crash of an Indonesian Lion Air plane, Ethiopia's transport minister said on Sunday. "Clear similarities were noted between Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610, which would be the subject of further study during the investigation," Dagmawit Moges told journalists, adding a preliminary report into last Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people will be released in "30 days". Funerals for Ethiopia crash victims but little to bury: Ethiopians were holding funerals Sunday for friends and relatives who perished in last week's Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed all onboard and saw the worldwide grounding of the Boeing aircraft involved. Caskets draped in the Ethiopian flag were brought to the cathedral in a convoy of black hearses accompanied by hundreds of mourners. Witnesses said the plane nose-dived into a field southeast of the capital, with the force of the impact leaving few bodies intact.

Source: Ethiopian News March 18, 2019 04:07 UTC