Ethiopian Airlines' CEO says the pilots who flew the plane that crashed on March 10 had trained on 'all appropriate simulators', rejecting reports that they had not been properly prepared to handle the new aircraft.
Ethiopian Airlines' CEO says the pilots who flew the plane that crashed on March 10 had trained on"all appropriate simulators", rejecting reports that they had not been adequately prepared to handle the new aircraft.
There is speculation that the software could have contributed to the crash, which killed 157 people, as well as to the crash of another Boeing 737 Max, a Lion Air flight, in October. After the Lion Air crash off the coast of Indonesia, the US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing issued new training material for pilots. Questions lingered, however, whether the required training was sufficient and whether airlines like Ethiopian had access to simulators to give pilots thorough experience handling the software."Contrary to some media reports, our pilots who fly the new model were trained on all appropriate simulators," Gebremariam said.
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