Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer Tewolde Gebremariam said on Monday he expected the preliminary release of a report into the March 10 crash of its Boeing 737 800 MAX "maybe this week or next week". Tewolde told Reuters the airline may or may not attend a briefing in the United States by Boeing about a planned update to software that is a focus of investigation in two deadly crashes that have prompted worldwide groundings of the 737 MAX. Tewolde had said it will work with investigators in Ethiopia, the United States and elsewhere "to figure out what went wrong with flight 302". His pledge follows reports the investigation was under strain because information about the March 10 crash, which killed 157 people, was not being shared with international partners. Planemaker Boeing has come under intense scrutiny since the crash was the second in five months involving its new 737 MAX 8 model.

Source: The Star March 25, 2019 17:37 UTC