It is highly unusual that within a short time, two planes of a new model to crash. However, the U.S. aviation authority FAA considers the aircraft type, the Boeing 737 Max 8 unfit to fly.
“I want to assure the people that we take these incidents, these accidents very seriously,” said US Minister of transportation Elaine Chao. The aviation authority Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will immediately initiate measures, should be discovered in the forthcoming investigations security risks.
“This investigation has just begun and no data are available to date to draw conclusions or to take action,” said, in turn, clear the FAA. In order to support the local authorities in the search for the cause of the disaster, sent its own personnel and employees of the transportation security administration NTSB to Ethiopia.
The tragic end of flight ET 302
A passenger plane of the company Ethiopian Airlines with the objective of Nairobi, was crashed Sunday morning shortly after takeoff from the airport of Addis Ababa. The Pilot had reported problems and asked for permission to make returns. A short time later, the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed on the ground. All of the 157 inmates were killed.
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It was the second accident within half a year with the American aircraft. Until the end of October a Max 8 the Indonesian company Lion Air accident shortly after the Start.
As a response to two airplane crashes, the competent authorities ordered in China, Indonesia, South Korea, Singapore, and Ethiopia, that all machines of the type in question must for the present remain on the ground. In other countries, the airlines have decided not to use this Boeing for the time being.
wa/ww (rtr, afp, dpa)