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The Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed in March on the outskirts of Addis Abeba was caused for reasons that are no fault of the pilots, a preliminary report on the investigation of the tragic accident revealed.
The findings in the report were disclosed this morning by Ethiopia's Minister of Transport, Dagmawit Moges. The investigation has established that the pilots were certified, the aircraft was issued an airworthiness certificate, the takeoff was proper, and they had followed the manufacturers' manual to manage the emergency.
This is an early finding that is an indictment of Boeing, a global aviation giant under fire for developing a faulty control panel on its most popular aircraft model, 737 Max 8. Two of these models crashed in Indonesia in November 2018 and Ethiopia two months ago, causing a total loss of 347 lives.
The management of Ethiopian Airlines was the first to accept the verdict of the investigation. In a statement it issued immediately after the Minister disclosed the preliminary report, it said it "would acknowledge the preliminary report" and appreciated the work the investigative team has done.
"Despite their hard work and full compliance with the emergency procedures, it was very unfortunate that they could not recover the airplane from the persistence of nose-diving," the statement reads.
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