The plane that crashed shortly after taking off from an Ethiopian airport, killing 157 people including 18 Canadians, was the same model as the one that crashed following a takeoff in Indonesia, leaving 189 people dead last year.
Aviation safety consultant Keith Mackey told CTV News Channel Sunday that the Ethiopian Airlines crash occurred “under very similar circumstances” to the October 2018 crash of a Lion Air flight in the Java Sea.
The Lion Air crash also involved a Boeing 737-8 MAX. The cause of that crash has not been determined. Data from the plane’s cockpit recorder shows that the aircraft’s airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its previous four flights, although Lion Air said that problem had been fixed prior to the plane’s final takeoff.
A sensor problem was blamed for a similar issue on the plane’s second-last flight, with pilots fighting an automatic safety system’s attempts to force the nose downward. Lion Air said the “angle of attack” sensor was replaced prior to the crash.following the Lion Air crash, describing what had happened to the plane and how other pilots could prevent similar issues with “angle of attack” sensors on their planes.
“We really don’t know enough about this accident to be able to suggest any type of remedial action that anyone should have taken at this point,” he said.
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