Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Debris from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302Officials probing the crash in Ethiopia of a Boeing 737 Max have preliminarily concluded that a flight-control feature automatically activated before it crashed, the Wall Street Journal says. The flight-control feature is meant to help prevent the plane from stalling. Black box findingsThe Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight-control feature was also implicated in a fatal crash by Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year. On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed in Chicago federal court by the family of one of the victims of the Ethiopian crash, Jackson Musoni, a citizen of Rwanda. All Boeing 737 Max are currently grounded.

Source: Ethiopian News March 29, 2019 08:48 UTC