A preliminary report into the crash of a Boeing 737 Max in which 157 people died will be ready on Monday, the Ethiopian foreign ministry said. Foreign ministry spokesman Nebiat Getachew said the transport ministry would release "a preliminary report into its investigation" of the March 10 tragedy in which a Boeing 737 Max plane crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa. It was also not clear if the preliminary report would be made public straight away, or if it would first be handed to the authorities, including the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). - Anti-stall system -A source with knowledge of the investigation has said an anti-stall system, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), was activated shortly before the crash. Boeing designed the MCAS system -- which lowers the aircraft's nose if it detects a stall or loss of airspeed -- for this particular model.

Source: Ethiopian News April 01, 2019 12:33 UTC