US plane maker Boeing is facing questions after an Ethiopian Airlines
737 crash on Sunday killed all 157 people on board.
The pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis
Ababa, the airline said.
Visibility was said to be good but air traffic monitor Flightradar24
reported that the plane's "vertical speed was unstable after take-off".
Following the Lion Air crash last October, investigators said the pilots
had appeared to struggle with an automated system designed to keep the
plane from stalling - a new feature of the Boeing 737 Max.
The anti-stall system repeatedly forced the plane's nose down, despite
efforts by pilots to correct this, preliminary findings suggest. The
crash killed 189 people.
The Lion Air plane was also new and the accident happened soon after
take-off.
"It's highly suspicious," Mary Schiavo, former Inspector General of the
US Transportation Department, told CNN.
"Here we have a brand-new aircraft that's gone down twice in a year.
That rings alarm bells in the aviation industry, because that just
doesn't happen."
After last October's crash, Boeing sent an emergency notice to airlines
warning them of a problem with the anti-stall system.
Boeing is expected to release a software patch to the system to deal
with this issue, according to Reuters.
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Nicht der Pilot entscheidet, wie er fliegt, sondern ein Programm. Und
der Pilot kann beim eigenen Absturz nur zusehen und nicht eingreifen! Irre.
Carl-Franz