They should retire that "Flying Coffin" before any more incident's with it happen.

@jamesPLANESii Before there is Lion air Jt-160 Crashed in indonesia, and it was Boeing 737-Max8

Join the club. @jamesPLANESii

Is it just me, or are a lot of these 737 MAXs crashing?

Yeah, I know it’s safe but I feel like some corners where cut. Maybe in training because they really need the pilots because of their grow rate. Like I said, I think this is going to be the new DC-10. Getting a bad reputation because of human error@WaffleCakes

@BoeyingOfficial Ethiopian Airlines has a highly safe safety record and the aircraft’s last major maintenance check was just over a month ago. I’m citing most likely pilot error as the prime suspect,but we have to wait.

It’s gonna be maintainance. Lion air is so unsafe it’s banned from Europe and Ethiopian can’t handle the pressure at which they are growing. They are cutting corners. Both crashes also have been in developing countries. Only when a max crash happens in a 1st world country i’m gonna worry. (Not discriminating) @JamesBleriot

I know. This is the second huge crash from this aircraft within months. @BoeyingOfficial

WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a Boeing 737-MAX8 (First Flight on October 30th, 2018, MSN62350) took of at 06:38 AM in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) headed for Nairobi (Kenya).

On board there were 149 passengers and 8 crew members from at least 35 different nations. The captain had more than 8000 hours of flight experience while the co-pilot had an experience of 200 hours. It is not known who was controlling the plane. The crashed plane already flew from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Addis Abeba on the same day and it had its last maintenance check on February 4th, 2019 where no problems were discovered.

Right after take off from Runway 7R the pilot reported technical problems to ATC and requested to return to the airport. ATC granted this request however they lost contact to the aircraft 6 minutes after take off at 06:44 AM.

The plane crashed near the town of Bishoftu in Ethiopia leaving a big impact crater which indicates that the plane crashed at high speed. The plane was completely destroyed on impact. There were no survivors. The families of the victims were contacted by Ethiopian Airlines.

The weather at the time of the crash was fine with a visibility of 10+ km, few clouds at 2500 feet.

Boeing announced that they will be sending a technical team to the crash site to assist the investigators in finding the cause of the crash. As the airplane was American build, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be joining the investigation as well. A committee compromising of Ethiopian Airlines, the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority and the Ethiopian Transport Authority has been set up to carry out the investigation.

Despite the bad reputation of African Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines has a great safety reputation and offers flights to destinations all over the globe.

As of now, besides the pilots report of technical problems, there are no indications for the cause of the crash. There are reported similarities between the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610, also a Boeing 737-8MAX that crashed right after takeoff in October last year. These similarities will be a subject of the investigation, however as of now it is to early to conclude. Ethiopian Airlines announced that they will release further statements when more information will become available.

It took me an hour to type this by the way.

The max is going the be the new DC-10.

Something isn’t right about this crash....

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Correction: 157 fatalities

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