US accident investigators disagree with Ethiopian authorities over the cause of a sensor malfunction that preceded a March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa.
abc.net.au/news/us-board-says-boeing-max-likely-hit-a-bird-before-crash/101889974US accident investigators have disagreed with Ethiopian authorities over the cause of a sensor malfunction that preceded a March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa.
The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday local time it determined the bad sensor reading was caused by impact with an object, most likely a bird. Ethiopia's aviation authority said false readings by the sensor that measures the direction of the plane's nose were caused by electrical issues that had existed since the plane was manufactured.
The NTSB said in a document dated January 13 and released on Tuesday that Ethiopia's final report on the crash provided no details to support the finding of an electrical problem.Both sides agree that the sensor readings caused an automated flight-control system new on the MAX to pitch the nose of the plane downward.
Pilots were unable to regain control. The crash killed all 157 people on board and occurred less than five months after a MAX crash in Indonesia killed 189 people.
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