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| Ethiopia pilots 'could not stop nosedive' | |
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| A preliminary report into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane last month says the aircraft nosedived several times before it crashed. | |
| Pilots "repeatedly" followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report into the disaster. | |
| Despite their efforts, pilots "were not able to control the aircraft", Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said. | |
| Flight ET302 crashed after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing 157 people. | |
| It was the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max aircraft in five months. | |
| Last October, Lion Air flight JT 610 crashed into the sea near Indonesia killing all 189 people on board. | |
| "The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly [that were] provided by the manufacturer but were not able to control the aircraft," Ms Moges said in a news conference in Addis Ababa. | |
| In a statement, the chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam, said he was "very proud" of the pilots' "high level of professional performance". | |
| "It was very unfortunate they could not recover the airplane from the persistence of nosediving," the airline said in a statement. |