Ethiopian Airlines former chief engineer, Yonas Yeshanew, is seeking asylum in the United States after resigning from his post this summer. Yeshanew insists airline officials approved shoddy repairs, fabricated documents including maintenance records and beat employees considered to be troublemakers. An international scandal resulted after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max in March. Yeshanew says that the day after the Ethiopian Airlines crash, officials of the company opened maintenance records on the plane — though they were supposed to be sealed. In the meantime, Yeshanew should be granted asylum in the United States.

Source: Ethiopian News October 09, 2019 04:07 UTC