12 Mar 2019

Aviation lawyer discusses aircraft used in Ethiopian crash

From Morning Report, 8:51 am on 12 March 2019

The blackbox has been recovered from the plane crash that killed all 157 people on board in Ethiopia.The Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday. Last year the same model of plane flown by Indonesia's Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea killing all on board that aircraft Indonesia has joined Ethiopia and China in grounding its Boeing 737 Max-8 jets. Ethiopian Airlines made this statement to media about the Boeing 737 Max model being blamed for the crash. Mary Schiavo is an aviation lawyer who was formerly Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation and speaks to Guyon Espiner.