The disclosure came as thousands marched in the capital of Addis Ababa, accompanying 17 empty caskets at a funeral for the Ethiopian victims of Flight 302. The crash of Ethiopian Flight 302 on March 10 and that of a Lion Air plane in Indonesia in October -- both of them Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners -- have prompted the United States and other countries to ground the aircraft. Information collected so far from the flight data recorder has indicated "clear similarities" between both crashes, she said. Both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder were sent to Paris for analysis by the French air accident investigation agency BEA. Many relatives already have gone to the dusty field outside Addis Ababa where the plane went down to pay their respects.

Source: Ethiopian News March 18, 2019 07:52 UTC