Preliminary data retrieved from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed shows "a clear similarity" with an earlier crash in Indonesia, Ethiopia's transport minister has said. A number of countries and airlines have now grounded the Boeing 737 MAX 8s. In the case of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, the black boxes have been handed to France's BEA air safety agency, which is working with US and Ethiopian investigators to determine what went wrong. US officials said the FAA and US safety agency NTSB have not yet validated data from the black boxes. pic.twitter.com/8DzetHxehH — BEA | Bureau d'Enquêtes & d'Analyses ✈️ 🚁🛩 🇫🇷 (@BEA_Aero) March 14, 2019Focus on sensorThe aircraft's state-of-the-art Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is under scrutiny.

Source: Ethiopian News March 17, 2019 20:14 UTC