Wreckage lies at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. Image Credit: APAlso in this package Airlines fear long grounding of Boeing 737 MAX jets after Ethiopian crashAddis Ababa:The investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people and caused the worldwide grounding of a brand-new Boeing aircraft model will take "considerable time," an Ethiopian government minister said Saturday. Earlier, Ethiopian Airlines said that DNA testing of the remains of the 157 passengers on board flight 302 may take up to six months as it offered bereaved families charred earth from the plane crash site to bury. The return of remains — most of which are charred and fragmented — would take up to six months, the papers said, but in the meantime earth from the crash site would be given. Flight data has already indicated some similarities with a crash by the same model of plane during a Lion Air flight in October.

Source: Ethiopian News March 16, 2019 09:11 UTC