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Ethiopian Airline Crash Updates: Data and voice recorders recovered

By The New York Times

Rescue workers sifting through the wreckage of a Boeing 737 Max 8 crash near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Monday.CreditMulugeta Ayene/Associated Press

The newest version of Boeing’s most popular jet is under intensified scrutiny after the deadly crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on Sunday, leading that carrier and nearly two dozen others around the world to ground their 737 Max 8 planes. But at least 12 other carriers, including American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which are heavy users of the Max 8, continued to fly them on Monday.

• Investigators have not determined the cause of the crash, but the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have both been recovered, Ethiopian Airlines said. Some circumstances of the crash were similar to one in October in Indonesia that killed 189 people.

• Aviation experts expressed surprise at the vast disparity in experience in the two-person cockpit crew. Ethiopian Airlines said the pilot of Flight 302 had 8,000 hours of flying time but the co-pilot had just 200.

• The pilot sent out a distress call before the crash, which killed all 157 people aboard. The victims were from more than 35 countries and included at least 22 employees of United Nations-affiliated agencies.

For more on this story go to; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/boeing-737-max-air-crash-ethiopia.html

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