Earlier this month, the Federal Administration agency grounded all Max planes, saying it had identified similarities between the Ethiopian crash and the crash in six months earlier. Ethiopian Flight 302 crashed March 10 after taking off from on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board. If confirmed, the findings reported in suggest that following emergency procedures in handbook may not have been sufficient enough to prevent a crash. The reported findings come from a preliminary report that's required by the investigating authority to be produced within 30 days of an incident. Other reported preliminary findings from data retrieved from the jet's black box suggest that the flight-control feature, called the Manoeuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), automatically activated before the crash.

Source: Ethiopian News April 03, 2019 08:37 UTC