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Ethiopian Airlines crash: Black boxes reach France
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IANS | 14 Mar, 2019
The flight data recorders or black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines
Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane that crashed on Sunday killing all 157 people on
board, arrived in France on Thursday for analysis, officials said.
Ethiopian
Airlines said a team led by its Accident Investigation Bureau had flown
to Paris with the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, devices that
typically provide the best information about the plane crash.
The
French air accident investigation office, the BEA, said on Wednesday
Ethiopia had asked it for assistance in analysing information contained
in the data recorders, Efe news reported.
The BEA has extensive
experience probing crashes and the devices could arrive at the BEA's
laboratory outside Paris later Thursday, a French official said.
Downloading the data and making early conclusions can take only a few hours, but detailed analysis takes months.
The
crash probe was also being aided by the US National Transportation
Safety Board, British accident investigators and technical experts from
Boeing.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which on
Wednesday joined others in grounding the 737 MAX fleet, said it would
decide how to proceed with the plane after seeing the information.
Returning them to flight could take a couple of months, it said, according to Efe news.
Meanwhile,
Air Italy SpA, a carrier part owned by Qatar Airways, said it would
lease an Airbus SE A319 short-haul plane from Bulgaria Air to replace a
Boeing 737 MAX 8 put out of service after European regulators grounded
the model.
"With the grounding of our (737 MAX 8) aircraft, it
was vital to find alternative aircraft as rapidly as possible to
minimise any impact on our passengers," said Air Italy Chief Operating
Officer Rossen Dimitrov on Thursday.
Airlines around the globe
parked their 737 MAX planes after regulators, from the US to China,
barred the plane from flying over safety concerns in the wake of
Sunday's crash.
The duration of the grounding was still uncertain.
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