Ethiopian Airlines vows to find out why plane crashed

By Addis Getachew</p> <p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Ethiopian Airlines’ chief executive officer has pledged to get to the bottom of “what went wrong with flight 302” that crashed two weeks ago.</p> <p>“The investigation of the accident is well underway, we will learn the truth,” Tewolde Gebremariam said in a statement issued on Monday.</p> <p>Et-302 flight involving Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed only six minutes after takeoff from the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport killing all 157 on board.</p> <p>“Many questions on the B-737 Max airplane remain without answers, and I pledge full and transparent cooperation to discover what went wrong,” Tewolde said.</p> <p>“We pledge to work with Boeing and our colleagues in all the airlines to make air travel even safer,”he added.</p> <p>Boeing 737 Max 8 was also involved in an October crash outside of Jakarta. All 189 people on board Lion Air flight JT610 were killed.</p> <p>In a statement last week, Ethiopian Transport Minister said the circumstances of the ET-302 flight crash was &quot;similar&quot; to that of the Indonesia flight crash that involved the same type aircraft.</p> <p>The Ethiopia accident triggered measures by airlines across the world to ground Boeing 737 Max 8 types with some even banning the type from flying into their air space.