Flying at full take-off power, according to the flight data, the crew then struggled with nose-down commands from MCAS, the four experts said. "The preliminary report confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that the crew followed the right procedures," Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement to Reuters on Sunday. But it is not part of a usual procedure for dealing with the loss of key information such as the sensor data, the four experts said. The Ethiopian Airlines statement suggested the crew left the throttles at takeoff power because they intended to continue to climb and were hampered by the nose-down commands of MCAS. The Ethiopian Airlines statement said "no excess speed was noted at the initial phases of the flight."

Source: Ethiopian News April 07, 2019 21:45 UTC