Yared Getachew, 29, was due for refresher training at the end of March, his colleague told Reuters, two months after Ethiopian Airlines had received the simulator. In the Ethiopian crash, it was not clear if Yared's colleague - First Officer Ahmednur Mohammed, 25, who also died in the crash - had practiced on the new MAX simulator. "Boeing did not send manuals on MCAS," the Ethiopian Airlines pilot told Reuters in a hotel lobby, declining to give his name as staff have been told not to speak in public. "Actually we know more about the MCAS system from the media than from Boeing." Ethiopian Airlines declined to comment on the remarks of its pilot to Reuters about the simulator and MCAS system.

Source: Ethiopian News March 21, 2019 09:45 UTC