FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer Tewolde Gebremariam speaks during the ceremony as they resume flights to Eritrea’s capital Asmara at the Bole international airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 18, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo
An anti-stall system believed to have caused a fatal October jet crash in Indonesia was probably also involved in this month’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed all 157 people onboard, the carrier’s CEO said on Monday.
Tewolde GebreMariam told The Wall Street Journal an automatic anti-stalling system specific to the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft was “to the best of our knowledge” activated on the fatal March 10 crash of Flight ET 302 minutes into its journey to Nairobi.
Although he is not a part of the official crash probe and gave no details on how he knew of the system’s activation, Tewolde’s comment adds pressure on Boeing to fix the popular aircraft model, which was grounded worldwide after the…
