Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesPreliminary data recovered from the black boxes of last week's Ethiopian Airlines crash has revealed "similarities" to October's fatal Lion Air crash, the Ethiopian Minister of Transport said Sunday. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed March 10, six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. In October, all 189 people on board Lion Air Flight 610 were killed when the flight went down over the Java Sea in Indonesia 13 minutes after takeoff. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam has previously said the pilot of Flight 302 had "flight control problems" shortly before the plane crashed. "He was having difficulties with the flight control of the airplane, so he asked to return back to base," GebreMariam said.

Source: Ethiopian News March 17, 2019 19:07 UTC