An analysis by French investigators of data from the damaged "black boxes" in the crash of an Ethiopia n Airlines Boeing 737 will yield initial results sometime Thursday, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said.The data could address questions about whether there is a dangerous software problem with the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, now grounded by more than 40 countries and all major airlines around the world. In that crash, it appears the pilots failed to disengage the autopilot when the plane's nose began pitching up and down, perhaps because they were unaware of how to do so. "When we could see the refined data," Elwell told Stephanopoulos, "it matched too closely to the Lion Air trajectory to figure that they weren't similar. "A proposed software fix for the 737 is "almost complete," Elwell said. "We expect by the end of this month all the testing will be complete, and we will authorize implementation of the fix," Elwell added.

Source: Ethiopian News March 14, 2019 15:22 UTC