[Straits Network]
On March 10, the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-8 was a moving event. According to official information, the black box of the plane has been found, and all parties are waiting for the results of the investigation. What's even more heart-wrenching is this...
According to rescuers in the front, the black box of Ethiopian Airlines FLIGHT ET302 that crashed yesterday has been found and brought back by Ethiopian Airlines staff for testing.
At present, the 8 Chinese citizens who were killed have been preliminarily confirmed. Four are employees of Chinese companies, 2 are international employees of the United Nations system, and the other 2 are from Liaoning and Zhejiang, respectively, for private travel.
Subsequently, Ethiopian Airlines confirmed on its social media that the black box of the crashed airliner had been found.
According to CCTV news, one of the two black boxes was found in the waste pile that had been searched and inspected, and the other was found by the staff of the Seventh Bureau of China Railway, a Chinese-funded company, about 20 meters underground.
On March 10, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-8 crash occurred, the second crash of a Boeing 737-8 aircraft following the October 29 Indonesian Lion Air crash.
According to information released by the airline, the passengers and crew members killed were from 35 countries, as well as 1 person holding a United Nations passport, and the nationality of 7 people remained unpublished.
In addition to the eight Chinese citizens, the victims of the air crash included doctors, professors, writers, law students, and many young lives engaged in international humanitarian causes.
Rescue team: The plane knocked out a few meters deep pit in the farmland On March 11, Xinhua News Agency reporters saw at the scene that rescue personnel from Ethiopian Airlines, the army, and medical departments had blocked the scene, and rescuers were still collecting debris scattered everywhere after the plane crashed. Some villagers from surrounding villages handed over fragments of aircraft wreckage found nearby to rescuers. The bodies of the victims have now been transported from the scene.
A villager named Tesfaye told reporters: "(At that time) I heard a huge explosion, my house shook, and my family and I rushed outside. Later we learned that the plane had crashed and that smoke and fire were still rising at the site of the accident. ”
Employees of the Seventh Bureau of China Railway, who were engaged in the construction of the nearby highway, sent personnel and mechanical equipment to the scene of the accident to participate in the rescue. "We arrived at the scene at around 3:30 p.m. local time and saw the plane crash into a pit several meters deep in the farmland. The plane should have hit the ground head down, and after hitting the ground, it had completely turned into fragments, and there was no larger wreckage to be found. Wang Guanghui, general secretary of the Ethiopian regional party branch of the China Railway Seventh Bureau Overseas Company, said.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Geb Mariam said at a press conference that it is too early to speculate on the cause of the accident. "Ethiopian Airlines will work with all stakeholders, including aircraft manufacturers, ethiopian civil aviation authorities and other relevant organisations, to further investigate the cause of the accident and release information to the outside world after determining the cause," he said. ”
After the incident, the United Nations and many countries expressed their condolences and condolences on the crash of the passenger plane.
What was the cause of the accident? The pilot's final plea was heart-wrenching...
As the investigation unfolded, the final state of the plane before the crash was also a concern, and the pilot reportedly made a request before the crash.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Gebmariam told reporters at a news conference on the same day that after the newly crashed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 took off, the pilot had reported difficulties and asked to return. According to the records of the air traffic controller, he was allowed to return.
However, before we could return home, tragedy occurred.
Gobmariam also said the pilot was a senior pilot for the airline, flew more than 8,000 hours and had an "excellent flight record." The plane had just departed from South Africa to Arrive in Addis Ababa and stayed on the ground for more than three hours at Bole International Airport. Gebmariam also said that routine maintenance checks before take-off did not find any problems, and at the moment, they have not determined the cause of the crash.
He told reporters: "At this stage, we cannot rule out any possibility. Nor can we blame anything on the cause, because we must comply with international regulations and wait for investigation. ”
Experts also said it was too early to determine the cause. At present, the black box has been found, and all parties are waiting for the results of the investigation.
In addition, it has been reported that the problems encountered before the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines 302 are indeed somewhat similar to the crash of Lion Air Indonesia in October last year.
A minute and a half after the Ethiopian Airlines 302 took off, the plane began to descend for nearly a minute for unknown reasons before climbing again. During this time, the aircraft continued to accelerate, far exceeding the normal speed of the aircraft take-off phase. Three minutes later, the plane crashed.
The Indonesian Lion Air flight that crashed last year suffered a similar experience.
On November 28, 2018, Indonesia released a preliminary investigation report based on a black box, revealing details of the October 29 Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
During the 11-minute flight, the nose of the plane automatically drooped more than twenty times, and the pilots have been battling the problematic plane, pulling the nose up, but this "man-machine fight" eventually ended with falling into the sea.
Boeing, the manufacturer of the crashed aircraft, issued the latest statement on the 11th: Boeing expressed deep sorrow for the death of passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. We extend our sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the passengers and crew on board and are ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team. A Boeing technical team will travel to the crash site to provide technical assistance under the guidance of the Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
Analysis: Experts say it is not advisable to associate too early
Compared with the two air disasters, the height is similar: the passenger plane is brand new, the weather is sunny, the emergency situation, the pilot tries to return, and it ends in failure. U.S. flight safety experts caution that it is not advisable to think too much too soon.
Alan Deere, a former investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board, said that in the two crashes, pilots encountered conditions just after takeoff and two passenger planes experienced a sharp change in vertical speed during the climb, and the signs "clearly point to potential control problems."
However, he lists other possible triggers for the condition: engine failures, operational errors, load imbalances, vandalism and bird impacts. He acknowledged that Ethiopian Airlines was in good standing, but investigators needed to rule out improper maintenance. The Lion Air disaster investigation found this problem.
Harrow Randt, founder of the Aviation Safety Net, said that previous investigations around the Lion Air crash found that the crashed passenger plane "flew with illness" and was improperly maintained, while ethiopian airline CEO told the media that the maintenance inspection of the airliner before take-off was normal.
Indonesia's National Security Transport Commission said on the 11th that it is willing to assist in the investigation of the Ethiopian air disaster. Indonesian investigators are troubleshooting the sensor failure of the Lion Air crash to determine whether a misread automatically triggers the airliner into "dive" mode. After Lion Air was overwhelmed, Boeing sent a notification to the aviation operator that a sensor misreport could trigger an automatic dive, informing the pilot of the operation process for such a situation. However, some pilots of aviation operators reported that the operating instructions were not comprehensive.
May the dead rest in peace,
It is also hoped that the results of the investigation will be published at an early date.