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Ethiopian Airlines: Boeing 737 Crashes on Way to Kenya

37 points by pirocks 8y ago

pirocks 8y ago
Flight radar states that it was a 737 max 8 and the crash seems to have been shortly after takeoff. Seems a awful lot like the lion Air crash a few months ago. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avj#1fc0cdb5 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avj#1fc0cdb5
brainpool 8y ago
It appears that vertical speed was really unstable after take-off and that it did not gain much altitude. Possibly a result of flaps and slats misconfiguration? https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177?s=20 https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177...
- raverbashing 8y ago
  Still early to speculate, as a (very speculative) guess it could be an issue with takeoff configuration incorrectly set or calculated (especially given the altitude of the airport). As a real world example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022 but I guess the 737 has a better alarm
ReptileMan 8y ago
Looks eerily similar to Lion's Air. Seems like the whole freet should be grounded for a while.
bekman 8y ago
Another 737 Max crashes in months, both after takeoff and both brand new, something is not right here.
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bibyte 8y ago
There were 149 passengers on the plane but still no info about any survivers. That's just horrifying. I wonder how many people in history have survived a plane crash.
- FabHK 8y ago
  Wikipedia has a macabre, but informative list of sole survivors of plane crashes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airline_accidents_or_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airl...
- gomijacogeo 8y ago
  It's now being reported there were no survivors.
wtf42 8y ago
BBC says it's the same modification of Boeing 737 MAX-8 as in Lion Airlines crash and both crashes happened a few minutes after take-off. So we have two crashes of brand new planes of a new 737 modification over half a year, wow! If these crashes have the same reasons (it seems so) then FAA would probably force Boeing to recall these new planes (350 of them, not so much). And Boeing might even lose some of pre-order contracts (~5000 planes). How many other hidden problems like MCAS does this plane have? Last time two crashes over half a year for a new plane modification happened in 1965 with Boeing 727, but that was a completely new plane design.
jokinko 8y ago
family of Slovakian vice prime minister was on board.
pella 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353059

37 points by pirocks 8y ago

Flight radar states that it was a 737 max 8 and the crash seems to have been shortly after takeoff. Seems a awful lot like the lion Air crash a few months ago. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avj#1fc0cdb5 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avj#1fc0cdb5

brainpool 8y ago

It appears that vertical speed was really unstable after take-off and that it did not gain much altitude. Possibly a result of flaps and slats misconfiguration? https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177?s=20 https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177...

raverbashing 8y ago
Still early to speculate, as a (very speculative) guess it could be an issue with takeoff configuration incorrectly set or calculated (especially given the altitude of the airport). As a real world example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022 but I guess the 737 has a better alarm

ReptileMan 8y ago

Looks eerily similar to Lion's Air. Seems like the whole freet should be grounded for a while.

bekman 8y ago

Another 737 Max crashes in months, both after takeoff and both brand new, something is not right here.

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bibyte 8y ago

There were 149 passengers on the plane but still no info about any survivers. That's just horrifying. I wonder how many people in history have survived a plane crash.

FabHK 8y ago
Wikipedia has a macabre, but informative list of sole survivors of plane crashes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airline_accidents_or_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airl...
gomijacogeo 8y ago
It's now being reported there were no survivors.

wtf42 8y ago

BBC says it's the same modification of Boeing 737 MAX-8 as in Lion Airlines crash and both crashes happened a few minutes after take-off. So we have two crashes of brand new planes of a new 737 modification over half a year, wow! If these crashes have the same reasons (it seems so) then FAA would probably force Boeing to recall these new planes (350 of them, not so much). And Boeing might even lose some of pre-order contracts (~5000 planes). How many other hidden problems like MCAS does this plane have? Last time two crashes over half a year for a new plane modification happened in 1965 with Boeing 727, but that was a completely new plane design.

jokinko 8y ago

family of Slovakian vice prime minister was on board.

pella 8y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353059