The voices of crew members could reveal what led to the March 10 crash of the Boeing 737 Max that has worrying parallels with another disaster involving the same model off Indonesia in October
American civil aviation and Boeing investigators search through debris at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines crash, near the town of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on March 12, 2019.The investigation into the final minutes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 turned on Tuesday to the secrets in the cockpit voice recorder as Boeing and a shaken global aviation industry hung on the outcome.
Both came down just minutes after takeoff after erratic flight patterns and loss of control reported by the pilots. However, every accident is a unique chain of human and technical factors, experts say. The U.S. Justice Department was looking at the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Boeing, one of the people said. And a federal grand jury last week issued at least one subpoena to an entity involved in the plane’s development.
The Max, which offers cost savings of about 15 per cent on fuel, was developed for service from 2017 after the successful launch by its main rival of the Airbus A320neo.
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