27) in Renton, Washington, was set up to keep apprise over 200 global airline pilots, authorities, and technical experts. The hesitation from Ethiopian Airlines to attend the meeting is surprising given the Ethiopian air crash led to both the grounding of the plane model worldwide and necessitated the software update from Boeing. It is also the strongest sign yet that there may be a fissure forming in the relationship between Boeing and Ethiopian. He also wouldn’t confirm to Quartz if the pilots on the doomed ET 302 flight were trained on the 737 Max simulator, which the airline had purchased months before. That accident, he said, has now deeply impacted families, his company, and the global aviation sector as a whole: “We have to work together.

Source: Ethiopian News March 26, 2019 07:07 UTC