Ethiopia's transport ministry will release on Thursday a preliminary report into the cause of last month's deadly Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash.
Ethiopian authorities will deliver their first report on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 on Thursday.
The March 10 disaster was the second crash of a MAX 8 in five months and has prompted the worldwide grounding of Boeing's best-selling plane.AAP The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max turned off a flight-control system but still could not get the plane to climb.They turned the system back on and tried other actions before the plane crashed, the paper said, citing anonymous sources.
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