A member of a rescue team stands at the secured wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town Bishoftu, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri ReutersBy Aaron Maasho and Maggie FickADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines said on Saturday 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. (GRAPHIC: Grounded flights - https://tmsnrt.rs/2O6jQbI)(GRAPHIC: Ethiopian Airlines crash - https://tmsnrt.rs/2ChBW5M)(Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Alexander Smith)

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