In a space of 24-hours, Ethiopian Airline has issued two press statements pointing out what it says are false reports by two American media outlets – the New York Times, NYT; and Washington Post. The article titled “Ethiopian Airlines Had a Max 8 Simulator, but Pilot on Doomed Flight Didn’t Receive Training,” reported that the airline was complicit in the crash but Ethiopian insisted that its pilots had completed all necessary training for the planes they handle. Ethiopian Airlines expresses its disappointment on the following wrong reporting of the nytimes titled “Ethiopian Airlines Had a Max 8 Simulator, but Pilot on Doomed Flight Didn’t Receive Training” pic.twitter.com/FsASbdm3Sv — Ethiopian Airlines (flyethiopian) March 21, 2019Early Friday morning, the airline issued another statement in response to an article published a day before in the Washington Post. Ethiopian strongly refuted what it said were baseless and factually inaccurate allegations in the said story. It accused the Washington Post of trying by their story to divert attention from the real issues.

Source: Ethiopian News March 22, 2019 12:56 UTC