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| New 737 crashes 6 minutes after take off in Ethiopia | |
| 2019-03-10 | |
| [DailyMail] An Ethiopian Airlines plane has crashed killing 149 passengers and 8 crew onboard, just minutes after take-off. The plane heading to Nairobi left Ethiopia this morning but came down within six minutes - 37 miles from Addis Ababa International Airport. Seven British nationals were onboard the plane at the time, while there were eighteen Canadians, eight Americans and 32 Kenyan nationals.
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| Posted by:lord garth |
| #3 Don Lemon: "Could it have been a black hole?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-10 20:50 |
| #2 The Daily Mail article has updated since lord garth posted it, Mike, and now has the following, directly addressing your comment: Boeing 737 Max jets investigated after Indonesia plane crash: Boeing issued a safety warning last November about its new 737 Max jets which could have a fault that causes them to nose-dive. The special bulletin sent to operators was about a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people just a week before the memo was sent. Since the 737 Max was unveiled in 2017, 350 of the jets have been bought, with around a further future 4,761 orders placed. More than 40 airlines around the world use the 737 Max, which has four kinds in the fleet, numbered 7, 8, 9 and 10. Airlines such as Norwegian Air, Air China, TUI, Air Canada, United Airlines, American Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Icelandair and FlyDubai. The 8 series, which was involved in the crash in Indonesia, has been flying the longest of all the Maxes. Boeing said in November that local aviation officials believed pilots may have been given wrong information by the plane's automated systems before the fatal crash. An AOA sensor provides data about the angle at which wind is passing over the wings and tells pilots how much lift a plane is getting. According to a technical log the Lion Air plane, which had only been in service a few months, suffered instrument problems the day before because of an 'unreliable' airspeed reading. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-10 18:30 |
| #1 ....Second relatively new 737MAX to go down in less than a year. Both of them - take it for what it's worth - belonging to two second tier low-cost airlines. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-10 17:58 |