France’s air accident investigation agency-BEA has started analyzing the black-box flight recorders from Ethiopian Airline’s Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed at Bishoftu last Sunday.
An Ethiopian delegation has flown the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to Paris, France for investigation yesterday.
“The Ethiopian delegation led by the Chief investigator of Accident Investigation Bureau has arrived in the French Safety Investigation (BEA) facilities and the investigation process has started in Paris,” the airlines said in a statement.
A total of 157 people died when the aircraft crashed en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa last Sunday, the second fatal flight accident for a Boeing 737 Max 8 in less than six months.
Following the accident, Boeing grounded its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft after investigators uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said fresh evidence as well as newly refined satellite data prompted the decision to temporarily ban the jets.
The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) also banned flight of Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 over Ethiopian air space as of yesterday.
The Authority had announced the ban via “Notice to Airmen” (NotAm) to all countries across the world.