The March 10 disaster, and parallels with another 737 MAX crash in Indonesia last October in which 189 people died, has led to the worldwide grounding of Boeing's flagship model. Responding to the preliminary report, Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg said: "As pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment." Boeing has seen billions wiped off its market value since the crash, but its shares rose 2.9 percent on Thursday. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration regulator, under fire for its certification of the MAX, cautioned the inquiry was not over. With bereaved families angry and confused, relatives of an American woman killed in the Ethiopian crash, Samya Stumo, filed the first lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. victim in Chicago.

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2019 19:33 UTC