First Lion Air, now Ethiopian Airlines: What caused the Boeing 787 MAX 8 plane to plummet, killing 157 passengers? Earlier, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said there would be “immediate action” if regulators identified any safety issue with the 737 MAX planes. “I want people to be assured that we take these incidents, these accidents very seriously.”BLACK BOXES RECOVEREDInvestigators have recovered both black box recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed just outside Addis Ababa, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew. All on board the Boeing 737 MAX 8 died. Malka Galato, 47, a barley and wheat farmer whose field the plane crashed in, also described smoke and sparks from the back.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2019 19:41 UTC