Ethiopia Reiterates Boeing Max Crash Due to Unfit Safety Feature

Ethiopian authorities reiterated that the deadly Boeing Co. 737 Max jet crash near Addis Ababa almost four years ago was mainly due to a faulty safety feature, revealing little fresh insight into the accident.

A final report into the Ethiopian Airlines Group incident concluded that all professionals and planes related to the crash were correctly certified, Dagmawit Moges, minister of transport & logistics, told reporters on Friday. The plane en route to Nairobi nosedived on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 people on board.

The incident followed another fatal Max crash in Indonesia the previous year and led to ...