A priest cries at a mass funeral at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, March 17, 2019. Thousands of Ethiopians have turned out to a mass funeral ceremony in the capital one week after the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Preliminary data retrieved from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed shows “a clear similarity” with an earlier disaster in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday. Officials say 157 people from 35 different countries were killed when the Nairobi-bound plane crashed shortly after takeoff. The planes in both crashes flew with erratic altitude changes that could indicate the pilots struggled to control the aircraft.

Source: Ethiopian News March 17, 2019 12:11 UTC