Investigators in Ethiopia on Monday said the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder had both been recovered, which could speed up the investigation. But it could still take time to discern whether the cause of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which killed 157 people, was a faulty plane, pilot error or something else entirely. In October, a Lion Air flight crashed under similar circumstances in Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board. At least 20 airlines around the world have grounded their 737 Max 8 planes, largely in China and Indonesia. “External reports are drawing similarities between this accident and the Lion Air Flight 610 accident,” the American regulator said in a statement.

Source: Daily Nation March 13, 2019 09:38 UTC