On March 10, 2019, at 05:38 UTC, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 operated by a Boeing 737-8 (MAX) aircraft took off from Addis Ababa Bole Airport to of the Jomo-Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi, Kenya.
It had 157 people on board, including 149 passengers, the pilot, his co-pilot and 5 cabin crew. Six minutes later, the plane crashed a few kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa, near the village of Ejere. There were no survivors.
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The reasons for the accident
Very quickly, aviation professionals are going make the link with another accident that occurred a few weeks earlier, near Jakarta, on a similar aircraft operated by the Indonesian company Lion Air.
In both cases, MCAS anti-stall software implemented on the 737 MAX aircraft caused the plane’s nose to tip down, after receiving a bad information emanating