The recorded conversation took place while the plane was just 450ft (137m) off the ground. "Pitch up, pitch up" were the words a pilot was heard saying on the Ethiopian Airlines flight just moments before it crashed three weeks back killing 157 people, reported the Wall St Journal. Also read: Final moments of flight 302The recorded conversation took place while the plane was just 450ft (137m) off the ground as the aircraft begun to point downwards, the paper said. The newspaper had reported on Friday that investigators found that the flight-control system on an Ethiopian Airlines jet got automatically activated before the aircraft went down on March 10. On Friday, The New York Times said the Ethiopian plane's data recorder indicated that a sensor incorrectly triggered the anti-stall system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).

Source: Ethiopian News March 31, 2019 13:30 UTC