“The process of identifying the victims will take at least five days,” Ethiopian Airlines spokesperson Asrat Begashaw told reporters in Addis Ababa on Tuesday. Ethiopian Airlines’ Begashaw did not comment on where they would be investigated. A team from the Israeli volunteer rescue service ZAKA was hoping to join the crash site on Tuesday and help identify bodies, said Opher Dach, consul of Israel’s embassy in Ethiopia. But the Ethiopia disaster followed another crash involving the same model in Indonesia six months ago. China, Indonesia ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleets after Ethiopia crashBy Tuesday, civil aviation authorities or airlines had grounded about 40 percent of the world’s fleet of 737 MAX 8s.

Source: The Express Tribune March 12, 2019 09:41 UTC