Christine Negroni is an aviation journalist and a former air accident investigator.
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France's BEA air accident investigation agency declined to comment on the AP's report.
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Did the airplane react the same way on the Lion Air accident flight?
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Investigators from the Bahamian Air Accident Investigation Department were alerted around 5 p.m.
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Spain's defense ministry, whose air accident agency conducted the investigation, also declined to comment.
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Boeing only accelerated this schedule after the Lion Air accident in Indonesia, they added.
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France's air accident investigation agency BEA will analyze black-box flight recorders, a spokesman said.
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A final report on the Lion Air accident is expected in August, at the earliest.
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The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said its air accident investigation unit is treating the Sept.
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But a spokesman for France's BEA air accident agency said no investigation had yet been formally launched.
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It was Cuba&aposs worst aviation disaster in three decades and its third major air accident since 2010.
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French air-accident investigators concluded that a lack of pilot training played a big part in the tragedy.
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Egypt's public prosecutor ordered that the recovered device be handed over to Egyptian air accident investigators for analysis.
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He quickly disconnected the autopilot and took avoiding action, according to the BEA, the French air-accident investigator.
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In Paris, France's BEA air accident investigation agency said data from the jet's cockpit voice recorder has been successfully downloaded.
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Asked afterwards about the arrangements for analysing the data, France's BEA air accident investigation agency later confirmed the reported plans.
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Boeing discussed the status of the AOA Disagree alert with the FAA in the wake of the Lion Air accident.
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Asked afterwards about the arrangements for analyzing the data, France's BEA air accident investigation agency later confirmed the reported plans.
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In Paris, France's BEA air accident investigation agency said data from the jet's cockpit voice recorder had been successfully downloaded.
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It was only after the Lion Air accident that Boeing told regulators and some pilots that the light wasn't functional.
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Data from the Ethiopian Airlines flight recorder had been successfully downloaded, France's BEA air accident investigation agency said on Sunday.
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The director of the BEA, France's air accident investigation agency, later confirmed the signals were from one of the plane's recorders.
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The Thai Civil Aviation Department will dispatch air accident investigators to the site Monday, Deputy Director General Umphawan Wannago told CNN.
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However, the Germanwings report is the first time that an air accident investigator has issued recommendations to the global medical community.
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A body was visible inside when the wreckage was on the seabed near Guernsey, air accident investigators had said on Monday.
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Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of the air accident subcommittee of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee, which is leading the investigation.
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Most air accident investigations take a year or longer as an inquiry explores all the contributing factors leading up to the crash.
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France's air accident investigation agency on Thursday received two black boxes whose data investigators will analyze to determine what caused Sunday's crash.
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France's air accident investigation agency BEA will analyze black-box cockpit voice and data recorders from the crashed plane, a spokesman said.
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MAK, which comprises 12 ex-Soviet nations, is charged with upholding safety and conducting independent air accident investigations in their common airspace.
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While the cause of the Lion Air accident remains under investigation, statistics show that flying generally is a safe way to travel.
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Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of the safety group's air-accident subcommittee, said he first learned of the term MCAS from news reports.
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The accident had been caused by a complex chain of events, Indonesian air accident investigator Nurcahyo Utomo told reporters at a news conference.
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BOEING SAYS IT DISCUSSED THE STATUS OF THE AOA DISAGREE ALERT WITH THE U.S. FAA IN THE WAKE OF THE LION AIR ACCIDENT
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The automatic detection messages the plane's system sent "generally mean the start of a fire," air accident investigation agency spokesman Sebastien Barthebut said.
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Both the Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed 157, and October's Lion Air accident, which killed 189, involved the Boeing 85033 Max 8 airplane.
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Britain's Air Accident Investigations Branch said it had sent a team to examine the wreckage and had recovered the helicopter's flight data recorder.
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The helicopter was headed for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the Palm Beach post reported, citing Bahamian Air Accident Investigation Department's chief investigator, Delvin Major.
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France's air accident investigations agency (BEA) has said the engine's main fan and inlet become detached when the engine came apart high over Greenland.
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Senior company leadership was not involved in the review and first became aware of this issue in the aftermath of the Lion Air accident.
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BOEING SAYS IN THE WAKE OF THE LION AIR ACCIDENT, BOEING INFORMED THE FAA THAT BOEING ENGINEERS HAD IDENTIFIED THE SOFTWARE ISSUE IN 2017
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French air accident investigators confirmed on Monday that flight recorder data from the Ethiopian Airlines jet showed "clear similarities" with the Lion Air jet.
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The Lion Air accident also involved a plane that crashed minutes after takeoff and after the crew requested permission to return to the airport.
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Air accident experts will continue to examine the black boxes of the two doomed aircrafts to determine what exactly led to the crashes. 3.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's BEA air accident agency said on Friday it would be involved in the investigation into a Ukrainian airliner crash in Iran.
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But nothing in the facts gleaned from the Lion Air accident has indicated that indeed the symptoms the pilots would experience are the same.
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It was Colombia's worst air accident since more than 160 people died on an American Airlines plane in 1995 in a mountainous area near Cali.
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France's Safran, which co-produces the engines along with General Electric, will also provide technical support, a spokesman for the BEA air accident agency added.
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French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash showed "clear similarities" to the Lion Air disaster.
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France's air accident investigation agency released pictures on Thursday of the two 'black boxes' whose data investigators will analyse to determine what caused Sunday's crash.
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The French air accident investigation authority confirmed that the data showed that several smoke alarms had been activated while the plane plunged toward the sea.
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Air accident investigators in the United Kingdom, where the plane was manufactured, are dispatching to the crash site to aid Colombian authorities in determining what happened.
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BOEING SAYS SENIOR COMPANY LEADERSHIP WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE REVIEW AND FIRST BECAME AWARE OF THIS ISSUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE LION AIR ACCIDENT
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Boeing plans to make this feature standard as part of a redesign following the Lion Air accident and a separate crash five months later in Ethiopia.
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The executive jet's German operator hasn't confirmed any details about the January 7 drama, citing an ongoing probe by the country's BFU air accident investigation bureau.
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Initial reports from investigators say there are clear similarities between the crash and the Lion Air accident that killed all 189 crew and passengers in November.
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An Ethiopian Airlines flight that went down on March 10 showed "clear similarities" to the Lion Air accident, aviation authorities said after seeing black-box data.
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Even in the absence of the data from the flight recorders, air accident experts have said that the distribution of the wreckage would yield significant clues.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is not conducting a probe separate to the ongoing Lion Air accident investigation, of which it is a part.
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While the cause of Sunday's tragedy remains undetermined, and the investigation into the Lion Air accident is ongoing, several circumstances of these two crashes are similar.
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While the cause of Sunday's tragedy remains undetermined, and the investigation into the Lion Air accident is ongoing, several circumstances surrounding these two crashes are similar.
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PARIS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - France's BEA air accident agency said on Friday it would be involved in the investigation into a Ukrainian airliner crash in Iran.
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Air accident investigators in the United Kingdom, where the plane was manufactured, were also dispatched to the crash site to aid Colombian authorities in determining what happened.
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Earlier this month, British air accident investigators looking into the cause of the helicopter crash said they were focusing on a problem with the tail rotor system.
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She spoke after French air accident investigations bureau BEA had sent the data from both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder to Ethiopian authorities.
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Under Annex 13, the country where an air accident takes place, in this case Ethiopia, is responsible for the investigation but can delegate it to another country.
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The software is at the center of investigations in the crash of Ethiopian Flight 302 last month and a Lion Air accident in Indonesia five months earlier.
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A lab belonging to France's BEA air accident investigation agency will try to remove sea salt deposits from the chips before returning them to Cairo for analysis.
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France's Safran, which co-produces the engines along with General Electric, will also provide technical support, a spokesman for the Paris-based BEA air accident agency said.
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The statement said its pilots had been "made aware" and had been "well briefed on" an emergency directive issued by the F.A.A. following the Lion Air accident.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Data from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France's BEA air accident investigation said on Sunday.
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"The battery situation is pretty scandalous," Jean-Paul Troadec, who headed the French government BEA air accident investigative agency during much of the Air France probe, told Reuters.
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Ethiopian officials said that a final report could take a year before release, and a final report on the Lion Air accident in Indonesia is expected in August.
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A spokesman for France's BEA air accident investigation agency said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders would be handed over to the agency later in the day.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Data from the cockpit voice recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France's air accident investigation agency said on Saturday.
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A report from Britain's air accident investigation body said both the pilot in the fatal crash, David Ibbotson, and the small plane were cleared only for private flights.
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France's air accident investigation agency BEA said Lubitz had been told by a doctor two weeks before the crash that he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital.
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"Though engineers were investigating, Boeing said senior company leadership wasn't involved in the review and "first became aware of this issue in the aftermath of the Lion Air accident.
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Boeing briefed the FAA on the display issue in November, after the Lion Air accident, and a special panel deemed it to be "low risk," an FAA spokesman said.
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Two French diplomatic sources said Egyptian authorities and France's BEA air accident investigation agency were finalizing a contract with two French companies, Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search and Alseamar.
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French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash that killed 157 people showed "clear similarities" to the Lion Air disaster.
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PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - Data from the cockpit voice recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France's air accident investigation agency said on Saturday.
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The international investoigators are from a U.S. team led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), France's Air Accident Investigation Agency (BEA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
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But his attempt to defend the F.A.A. was complicated by the release of an F.A.A. analysis, presented at the hearing, of that Lion Air accident off the coast of Indonesia.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's air accident investigation agency BEA will analysis black-box flight recorders from a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed near Addis Ababa on Sunday, a spokesman said.
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Air accident investigators from the Thai Civil Aviation Department will meet at the site with Malaysian aviation investigators on Monday to analyze the debris, Deputy Director General Umphawan Wannago told CNN.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators have begun studying the cockpit voice recorder of an Ethiopian Airways plane that crashed last week, a spokesman for France's BEA air accident investigation agency said on Saturday.
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" The similarities between Sunday's incident and a Lion Air accident in October — when a 737 Max 2300 crashed after takeoff killing 2737 people — prompted experts to call the incidents "highly suspicious.
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If recorders are found intact their contents will be studied in Egypt, air accident investigator Captain Hani Galal told CBC, but they will be sent abroad for analysis if found damaged.
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An EgyptAir jet sent a series of signals indicating that smoke had been detected on board before it crashed into the Mediterranean on Thursday, France's air accident investigation agency said on Saturday.
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France's BEA air accident investigation agency said a doctor consulted by Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had recommended two weeks before the disaster that he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital.
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France's air accident investigation agency said on Saturday it was working on the Ethiopian flight's black boxes in coordination with teams from Boeing as well as U.S. and EU aviation safety authorities.
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PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) - France's air accident investigation agency BEA will analyse black-box flight recorders from a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed near Addis Ababa on Sunday, a spokesman said.
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Ethiopian Airlines - whose reputation like Boeing's is in the balance - and France's BEA air accident authority both also said initial analysis of the black boxes showed "clear similarities" between the twin disasters.
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The so-called MCAS anti-stall software is at the center of accident probes in both the Ethiopian crash and October's Lion Air accident in Indonesia that have together killed 346 people.
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In rare criticism of another country's crash probe, the French BEA air accident investigation agency said in a statement that authorities in Egypt had apparently not followed up calls for further investigations.
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Boeing's anti-stall software is at the centre of investigations into last month's Ethiopian Airlines crash and a Lion Air accident in Indonesia in October that together killed a total of 346 people.
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Approximately a week after the Lion Air accident, on November 6, 2018, Boeing issued an Operations Manual Bulletin (OMB), which was followed a day later by the FAA's issuance of an Airworthiness Directive (AD).
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Air accident investigators said on Monday they had found the wreckage of the missing aircraft carrying Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala on the seabed near Guernsey and that a body was visible inside.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to share a final report into a deadly Boeing Co 737 MAX crash with the families of victims on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the country's air accident investigator.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to share a final report into a deadly Boeing Co 737 MAX crash with the families of victims on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the country's air accident investigator.
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German air accident investigator BFU, responsible for investigating the incident, said its team was heading to Hahn airport to secure the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and to interview crew and passengers.
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The statement, by France's BEA air accident investigation agency, contradicts an earlier assessment by Egyptian authorities who cited the discovery of trace elements of explosives on human remains, suggesting it was a malicious act.
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The flight, Ryanair flight EI GJT, was flying over northern Spain with 177 passengers on board in October 2018 when the plane's Inertial Reference System malfunctioned, according to the UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch.
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The French BEA air accident investigation agency has previously said the crash was probably caused by a cockpit fire, contradicting an earlier suggestion by Egyptian authorities that a bomb may have been the cause.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ethiopian investigators have arrived at France's BEA air accident investigation agency and technical analysis of the black boxes recovered from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane will begin on Friday, the agency said.
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An Egyptian team formed by the Civil Aviation Ministry is conducting the technical investigation and three officials from France's BEA air accident investigation agency arrived in Cairo on Friday with an expert from Airbus.
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Ethiopia's Transport Ministry, France's BEA air accident authority and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have all pointed to similarities between the two disasters, but safety officials stress the investigation is at an early stage.
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The software known as MCAS is at the centre of accident probes in both the crash of Ethiopian flight 302 and a Lion Air accident in Indonesia five months earlier that together killed 346 people.
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The so-called MCAS software is at the centre of accident probes in both the crash of Ethiopian flight 302 and a Lion Air accident in Indonesia five months earlier that together killed 346 people.
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Ethiopia's Transport Ministry, France's BEA air accident authority and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have all pointed to similarities between the two disasters but safety officials stress the investigation is at an early stage.
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France's BEA air accident agency has launched a rare appeal for 150 volunteers to help look for a key component from one of the Swiss engines in a wood in eastern France in coming weeks.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's air accident investigation agency on Thursday released a picture of the doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet's flight data recorder, which appeared to show the crash-proof housing protecting the critical recording chip intact.
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The investigation committee source said the memory chips were accompanied by investigators to France, where they will remove sea salt deposits from the chips at a lab belonging to France's BEA air accident investigation agency.
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The Bek Air accident follows a fiery emergency landing by an Aeroflot plane in Moscow in May, killing 41 people, and a Saratov Airlines crash outside Moscow last year that killed all 71 people aboard.
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"The fatal air accident ... occurred during the second go-around, due to an incorrect aircraft configuration and crew piloting (and) the subsequent loss of the (commanding pilots) situational awareness at night-time," the report said.
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"The fatal air accident...occurred during the second go-around, due to an incorrect aircraft configuration and crew piloting (and) the subsequent loss of the (commanding pilots) situational awareness at night-time," the report said.
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PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) - Ethiopian investigators have arrived at France's BEA air accident investigation agency and technical analysis of the black boxes recovered from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane will begin on Friday, the agency said.
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JAKARTA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to share a final report into a deadly Boeing Co 737 MAX crash with the families of victims on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the country's air accident investigator.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Air accident investigators said on Monday they had found the wreckage of the missing aircraft carrying Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala on the seabed near Guernsey and that a body was visible inside.
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A special bulletin from Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch said toxicology tests on his blood had shown that Sala had a saturation level of 58% of carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb), a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hemoglobin.
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The contents of the black box from the EgyptAir jet that crashed on Thursday will be analysed in Egypt if it is found intact, air accident investigator Hani Galal told Egyptian private broadcaster CBC on Monday.
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The contents of the black box from the EgyptAir jet that crashed on Thursday will be analyzed in Egypt if it is found intact, air accident investigator Hani Galal told Egyptian private broadcaster CBC on Monday.
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"The training that was recommended by Boeing after the Lion Air accident, there's no way for me to know whether the airline I'm on or the pilot that's flying had that training or not," Soucie said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ethiopian authorities have not contacted France's air accident investigation agency about receiving the black boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed near Addis Ababa, a spokesman for the BEA said on Wednesday.
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After an apparent tussle over where the investigation should be held, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders arrived in Paris and France's BEA air accident investigation agency said it would receive them later in the day.
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As a former air accident investigator and the author of two books on the subject, I am often told by people that they assume regulation is the same around the world, but that is not the case.
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At first he and a friend with whom he started the corps listened to police and fire department radios and went to addresses they heard on the air — accident scenes or apartments where sick people needed help.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The black box from a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter that crashed in Ireland last month with four people on board has shown no signs of mechanical faults, the country's Air Accident Investigation Unit said on Saturday.
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Confirming the focus of the probe after Reuters reported the plans for inspections, France's BEA air accident agency said it had discovered a "sub-surface fatigue crack" on the recovered part and the engine maker was preparing checks.
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That growth has been accompanied by an air-accident rate that was twice the global average in 2017 and consistently higher than Indonesia's neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, according to the United Nations' aviation agency.
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An Egyptian team formed by the Civil Aviation Ministry is conducting the technical investigation and three officials from France's BEA air accident investigation agency have also been in Cairo since Friday, with an expert from Airbus, to assist.
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PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) - Ethiopian authorities have not contacted France's air accident investigation agency about receiving the black boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 which crashed near Addis Ababa, a spokesman for the BEA said on Wednesday.
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It is not yet clear whether the Ethiopian Airlines crash, in which all 157 people onboard died on March 10, could have been prevented if information had been shared more transparently and quickly after the Lion Air accident.
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Mr. Nurcahyo, the KNKT head of air accident investigations, said that before the second to last flight, engineers replaced the left angle of attack vane because the plane had suffered problems with data readings on three previous flights.
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In November, about a week after the Lion Air accident, the agency directed pilots of the Max to use a common emergency procedure to deal with the erroneous activation of software, which was a factor in the crash.
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"The FAA is not doing a safety probe separate from the ongoing Lion Air accident investigation of which we, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and Indonesian officials are a part," the agency said in an emailed statement.
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Boeing said on Wednesday it successfully tested an update of the MCAS anti-stall software that is at the centre of probes in both the Ethiopian crash and October's Lion Air accident in Indonesia that together killed 346 people.
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The Transportation Department's inquiry was launched in the wake of October's Lion Air accident that killed 189 people and is being conducted by its inspector general, which has warned two FAA offices to safeguard computer files, the Journal said.
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How we know: Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of the air accident subcommittee of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee, listened to and described the contents of the cockpit voice recorder that was retrieved from the ocean floor in January.
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PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) - The black boxes from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 arrived in Paris on Thursday but are not yet in the possession of France's BEA air accident investigation agency, a BEA spokesman said.
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Boeing said on Wednesday it successfully tested an update of the MCAS anti-stall software that is at the center of probes in both the Ethiopian crash and October's Lion Air accident in Indonesia that together killed 346 people.
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A U.S. team led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as well as experts from France's Air Accident Investigation Agency (BEA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are helping analyse the black boxes, the Ethiopian ministry said.
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The Transportation Department's inquiry was launched in the wake of October's Lion Air accident that killed 189 people and is being conducted by its inspector general, which has warned two FAA offices to safeguard computer files, the Journal said on.wsj.com/2Hrzvlq.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A second ship equipped with specialist search devices will join the hunt for the "black box" flight recorders and the wreckage of an EgyptAir jet on Friday, the head of France's air-accident investigation agency said on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala's blood showed high levels of carbon monoxide, air accident investigators said on Wednesday, and it was likely the pilot of the plane flying him to Britain had also been exposed before their fatal crash.
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A U.S. team led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as well as experts from France's Air Accident Investigation Agency (BEA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are helping analyze the black boxes, the Ethiopian ministry said.
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Aviation authorities are looking into whether the system may have played a role in the Lion Air accident as well as the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that killed all 157 people on board, the newspaper added.
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Safety experts say air accident investigation agencies typically lead the search for black boxes with public funding to ensure the independence of the process and that it is unusual to hand the task to one of the parties to the investigation.
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This year, two New York Times reporters, Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono, spoke to a former investigator who said that after a previous Lion Air accident, an airline employee tried to hand over a black garbage bag full of cash.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British air accident investigators looking into the cause of the helicopter crash that killed Leicester City soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha said on Thursday that the failure of the tail rotor mechanism had caused the pilot to lose control.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch said on Wednesday it had not received any request to analyze the black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, whose crash on Sunday prompted a number of countries to ground Boeing's 737 MAX planes.
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Remi Jouty, director of the BEA air accident agency, which is advising Egypt on the underwater search, said the first ship continued to pick up locator signals from the first recorder, whose location had been narrowed to within 1 to 2 kilometres.
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PARIS, June 9 (Reuters) - A second ship with specialist search equipment will join the hunt for the 'black box' flight recorders and wreckage of a crashed EgyptAir jet on Friday, the head of France's air accident investigation safety agency said on Thursday.
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Remi Jouty, director of the BEA air accident agency which is advising Egypt on the underwater search, said the first ship continued to pick up locator signals from the first recorder, whose location had been narrowed to a radius of 1-2 kilometers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's air accident investigation agency said on Saturday it had resumed work analyzing the black boxes from an Ethiopian Airways plane that crashed last week, in coordination with teams from Boeing as well as U.S. and EU aviation safety authorities.
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PARIS (Reuters) - It may take several days to complete the first readings of the black boxes recovered from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed after take-off, a spokesman for the French air accident investigation agency conducting the analysis said on Thursday.
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Egypt will lead the probe with the help of officials from France, where the 12-year-old jet was built and which had the second-largest number of people on board after Egypt, Ayman al-Moqadem, head of Egypt's air accident agency, said.
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Mr. Muilenburg said Boeing was "making steady progress" in getting regulators to certify a fix for the anti-stall software that pushed the jet's nose, a system that played a role in the Ethiopia crash and an earlier Lion Air accident in Indonesia.
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The reaction from the French BEA air accident investigating agency came hours after Egyptian investigators said that traces of explosives had been found on the remains of victims of flight MS 804 which crashed into the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo.
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Keeping the S&P 500 and Dow's gains in check was Boeing Co, which fell 2.1 percent after Ethiopia said an initial analysis of black boxes showed "clear similarities" in the March 10 plane crash with October's Lion Air accident in Indonesia.
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A spokesman for France's BEA air accident investigation agency said the signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire on board the plane, which plunged into the sea with 217 people on board as it was heading from Paris to Cairo.
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Ayman al-Moqadem, Egypt's head of air accident investigations, said the investigating team had received radar imagery and audio recordings from Greece detailing the flight trajectory of the doomed plane and the last conversation between its pilot and Greek air traffic control.
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Yet an Indonesian aviation act from 2302 specifies that when heirs receive the government-mandated payment, they do not give up their right to pursue legal action against a carrier or other entities that may have been involved in an air accident.
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Less than five months after the Lion Air accident, an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crashed, leading to a global grounding of the model and a growing crisis for the world's biggest planemaker, which has just ousted the top executive of its commercial airplanes division.
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PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Air accident investigators from both sides of the Atlantic are struggling to decide who should lead a probe into an engine explosion that forced an Air France A380 to make an emergency landing in Canada, people familiar with the matter said.
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PARIS/TORONTO (Reuters) - Air accident investigators from both sides of the Atlantic have been struggling to decide who should lead a probe into an engine explosion that forced an Air France A380 to make an emergency landing in Canada, people familiar with the matter said.
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According to Ethiopian crash investigators, the pilots correctly followed procedures publicized after the Lion Air accident in October to disable a faulty computerized stabilization system that Boeing created to prevent planes from crashing, but the plane's speed and the clock worked against their efforts.
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"I think he knew it was unrecoverable," said Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of the air accident subcommittee of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee, who listened to and described the contents of the cockpit voice recorder that was retrieved from the ocean floor in January.
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France's BEA air accident investigation office said in its final report that Lubitz had begun to show symptoms that could be consistent with a psychotic depressive episode in December 2014 and consulted several doctors over the following months, none of whom alerted aviation authorities or his employer.
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We've been working in full cooperation with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation and the National Transportation Safety Board on all issues relating to both the Lion Air and the Ethiopian Airlines accidents since the Lion Air accident occurred in October last year.
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France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, which is advising Egypt on the underwater search, has said that one of the search ships has continued to pick up locator signals from one black box, whose position has been narrowed to within 1 to 2 km (just over a mile).
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Andreas Lubitz, a co-pilot at Deutsche Lufthansa AG's subsidiary Germanwings, consulted a number of doctors as he wrestled with symptoms of a "psychotic depressive episode" that started in December 2014 and may have lasted until the March 24, 2015 crash, according to France's BEA air accident investigation agency.
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In rare criticism of another country's crash probe, the French BEA air accident investigation agency said last week that Egyptian authorities had apparently not followed up on its calls to further investigate the crash that killed 66 people and that a cockpit fire was the "most likely" reason for the incident.
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According to air-accident experts who are not involved in the EgyptAir inquiry, the absence of large debris and a relatively wide dispersal of objects along the ocean floor indicate that the plane broke up in the air, although they do not explain what might have caused that to occur.
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Under rules set by a United Nations aviation organization, the NTSB is entitled to participate because the crash involved a Boeing 737-800 jet that was designed and built in the U.S. The French air accident investigation agency, known by the French acronym BEA, is also taking part in the probe.
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PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - Investigators who verified data extracted from the black box recorders of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX plane that crashed eight days ago killing 157 people have found "clear similarities" with October's doomed Lion Air flight of the same model, the French BEA air accident authority said on Monday.
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But, in the wake of the fatal Lion Air accident in Indonesia last month that killed all 7377 people on board, and which investigators have suggested might have been caused in part by problems with the 7377 Max 8 that was flying that route, some travelers may be wondering about these planes.
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From the days immediately following the Lion Air accident, we've had teams of our top engineers and technical experts working tirelessly in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and our customers to finalize and implement a software update that will ensure accidents like that of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 never happen again.
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"It is too soon to speculate about the cause of the accident in Addis Ababa, and to make direct links to the Lion Air accident in Indonesia in October 2018; however, my department has been closely monitoring the investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority," he said.
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