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Ethiopian Airlines pilots followed Boeing’s
emergency procedures before crash — Report
PILOTS flying Ethio
pian Airlines Flight
302 initially followed emergency
procedures that
were laid out by Boeing before
the plane nose-dived
into the ground, according
to preliminary findings
reported in the Wall
Street Journal.
Citing unnamed sources
familiar with the investigation,
the WSJ reported that
despite following the
steps, which included
turning off an automated
flight-control system, pilots
could not regain control of
the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
Earlier this month, the
Federal Aviation Administration
agency grounded
all Boeing 737 Max planes,
saying it had identified
similarities between the
Ethiopian Airlines crash
and the Lion Air crash in
Indonesia six months earlier.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight
302 crashed the morning
of March 10 after taking off
from Addis Ababa on its
way to Nairobi, Kenya, killing
all 157 people on board.
Lion Air Flight 610
crashed into the Java Sea
in Indonesia on October 29
People celebrate on the streets after Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
submitted his resignation, in Algiers, Algeria. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
after taking off from Jakarta.
All 189 people on board
died. Following the Lion
Air crash, Boeing issued an
“Operations Manual Bulletin”
advising airline operatorshow
to address incorrect
cockpit readings. It
pointed airlines “to existing
flight crew procedures
to address circumstances
where there is erroneous
input from an AOA (angle
of attack) sensor,” a Boeing
statement said.
If confirmed, the findings
reported in the Wall Street
Journal suggest that following
emergency procedures
in the Boeing handbook
may not have been
sufficient enough to prevent
a crash. The reported
findings come from a preliminary
report that’s required
by the investigating
authority to be produced
within 30 days of an incident.
The findings are not
final and subject to change
as the investigation continues.
Other reported preliminary
findings from data
retrieved from the Ethiopian
Airlines jet’s black box
suggest that the flight-control
feature, called the Maneuvering
Characteristics
Augmentation System
(MCAS), automatically activated
before the crash.
The MCAS is a system
that automatically lowers
the nose of the plane when
it receives information from
its external angle of attack
(AOA) sensors that the aircraft
is flying too slowly or
steeply, and at risk of stalling.
Meanwhile, the main
report of the crash would
be out today.
Algeria’s interim rulers
under pressure for more
change as Bouteflika goes
*Ex-President asks for forgiveness
ALGERIA’s caretaker government faces the pros
pect of persistent popular demands for the removal
of a scletoric ruling elite and wholesale reforms
after ailing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika quit in the face of mass protests.
“We want a president who understands what we
want,” 25-year old Bouzid Abdoun, an engineer at
state-owned energy concern Sonelgaz, told Reuters
on Wednesday. “We want to live here, not to migrate
to Europe.”
Bouteflika ended 20 years in power on Tuesday
after a final nudge by the military following six
weeks of protests calling for democratic reforms after
almost 60 years of monolithic rule by veterans of
the 1954-62 independence war against France.
That leaves Algeria extraordinarily in the hands
of a caretaker government until elections in three
months and with no successor in sight.
However, protesters made quickly clear that they
would accept no new president from “le pouvoir”,
the popular nickname for the entrenched establishment
of elderly veterans, business tycoons and National
Liberation Front (FLN) party functionaries.
“What is important to us is that we do not accept
the (caretaker) government,” Mustapha Bouchachi,
a lawyer and protest leader, told Reuters just before
Bouteflika stepped down. “Peaceful protests will
continue.”
Ali Benflis, a former head of the ruling FLN party,
said other leading figures should also quit, naming
Abdelkader Bensalah, chairman of the upper house
who is standing in for Bouteflika for 90 days, interim
premier Noureddine Bedoui and constitutional
council head Tayeb Belai.
“The Algerian people have just closed one of the
darkest chapters in the history of our country,” he
said in a statement, calling the protest a “peaceful
popular revolution”
Protesters have brushed aside especially Bedoui,
whom Bouteflika appointed on Sunday as his grip
on power was fading. Bedoui is seen by many in
the street as a stalwart of the ruling circles - as interior
minister he oversaw elections which the opposition
said were not free or fair.
Algeria’s streets were quiet on Wednesday but the
next test for the interim rulers looms on Friday, the
day of the weekly mass marches since Feb. 22.
Bouteflika’s exit is seen only as a first gesture for
young Algerians demanding jobs in a country where
one in every four under the age of 30 is unemployed
in a highly statist, undiversified economy dependent
on oil and gas exports.
Meanwhile, Bouteflika has asked his country for
forgiveness in a letter published by the Algerian
Press Service.
The ex- president said he was “proud” of his contributions
but realised he had “failed in his duty.”
Mozambique: Woman gives birth on
mango tree during floods
A
woman gave birth
on a mango tree
while escaping floods in
central Mozambique
caused by Cyclone Idai.
Single mother Amélia
delivered her daughter,
Sara, whilst clinging to the
branches with her twoyear-old
son.
The family was rescued
two days later by neighbours,
following storms that
have killed more than 700
people.
It comes nearly 20 years
after another miracle baby,
Rosita Mabuiango, was
born up a tree during
flooding in southern
Mozambique.
“I was at home with my
two-year-old son when
suddenly, without warning,
the water began to
enter the house,” she told
the UN children’s agency
Unicef.
“I had no choice but to
climb a tree, I was alone
with my son.”
*Amélia, who delivered
her daughter, Sara, is
seen here with the child
Amélia and her newly
extended family are now
staying at temporary accommodation
in nearby
Dombe, and are reportedly
in good health.
Rosita Mabuiango, now
aged 19, made international
headlines after she
and her mother Sofia were
rescued by helicopter
from a tree surrounded by
floodwater.
Speaking with local
newspaper Mail and
Guardian, Sofia said the
birth was “very, very painful.”
“I was crying, screaming.
Sometimes I thought
the baby was coming, but
other times I thought it
was because of hunger.”
Biden vows to respect ‘personal
space’ after allegations
RESPONDING to complaints that he made
s o m e
women uncomfortable by touching them at
political events, former Vice President Joe Biden
on Wednesday released a video in which he
pledged to be “more mindful about respecting
personal space in the future.”
Biden has not yet announced whether he will join
the 2020 Democratic presidential field, but is widely
expected to mount a bid in the coming weeks.