ADDIS ABABA ¨C Ethiopia Airlines¡¯ doomed 737 Max jet hit excessive speed and was forced downward by a wrongly triggered automation system as pilots wrestled to regain control, a preliminary report into the crash that has shaken the aviation world showed on Thursday.
Three times Capt. Yared Getachew cried ¡°pull up¡± before the Boeing jetliner plunged into a field 6 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa last month, killing all 157 passengers and crew, said the report by Ethiopian investigators.
The disaster ¡ª and parallels with another 737 Max crash in Indonesia where 189 people died last October ¡ª has led to the grounding of Boeing¡¯s flagship model.
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