Boeing's newest version of its most popular plane is again in the spotlight after its second deadly crash minutes after take-off.
US pilots who were trained to fly the same model said Boeing had not told them about the new anti-stall system in training documentsPilots said Boeing issued a safety bulletin after the crash that included new details on how to disable the system.
The plane was given clearance to return to the airport but crashed six minutes after departing, ploughing into the ground at Hejere near Bishoftu/Debre Zeit, about 50 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, at 8:44am .Safety experts are cautioning against drawing too many comparisons between the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes until more is known about Sunday's disaster.
@Flightradar24 tweet: Additional data from Flightradar24 ADS-B network show that vertical speed was unstable after take off.Mr Waldock said Boeing would look more closely at the flight management system and automation on the MAX. Alan Diehl, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said the similarities included both crews encountering a problem shortly after take-off, and reports of large variations in vertical speed during ascent,"clearly suggesting a potential controllability problem" with the Ethiopian jetliner.
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