For the first time, Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg has acknowledged that the flight control system on the 737 MAX may be to blame in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight as well as a crash in Indonesia last October. The mea culpa followed the release of a preliminary report into the crash of Ethiopian Flight 302 that shows striking similarities to the Lion Air crash in October. Within 44 seconds of flight 302 taking off, a sensor malfunctioned, activating the anti-stall system MCAS two minutes into the flight. MCAS fired again, putting the plane into a 40 degree nose dive that reached 575 miles an hour. Samya Stumo, 24, was one of the eight Americans on flight 302.

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2019 22:34 UTC