Earlier Friday, investigators said they found a stabiliser component stuck in an unusual position similar to that of the Lion Air aircraft which plunged into the Java Sea last October. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam has told China's Xinhua state news agency that there was "a clear similarity between our crash and the Lion Air crash." "They are both in Paris, accompanied by FAA and Boeing experts, Ethiopian airlines' experts," he said. In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Indonesia's Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea soon after take-off, killing all 189 passengers and crew on board. On Wednesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration said that there appeared to be "some similarities" between the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air incidents based on new data from satellite-based tracking of the Ethiopian plane's flight path.

Source: Ethiopian News March 15, 2019 17:30 UTC