Ethiopia’s Transport Minister, Dagmawit Moges, on Thursday presented details from a preliminary report of the crash of the ET302 aircraft on March 10. According to her, the multi-pronged probe body had arrived at four major conclusions and had subsequently presented two safety recommendations to the plane maker, Boeing Inc. The four conclusions according to her pointed to the fact that the airline had done everything right before and during the flight which crashed six minutes after take off. The conclusions were:The aircraft had passed airworthiness test and was fit for the journey. The crew had the licensed qualification to operate the flightThe takeoff role was normalAll manufacturer’s procedures of Boeing were used but the crew was unable to control the flightAccording to her information from the black boxes were the main basis of the preliminary report plus other information pieces gathered from the accident site, from the airline and the civil aviation authorities.

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2019 08:35 UTC