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    'Clear' Similarities Between Ethiopian And Indonesian Plane Crashes, Official Says

    The announcement follows a mass funeral for the victims of last Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. Relatives say they were offered soil from the site of the crash.
    by Francesca Paris Mar 17, 2019 3 minutes

    Updated at 6:03 p.m. ET

    Data retrieved from the black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board last week show "clear" similarities with the crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia last October.

    Both crashes involved the same model of plane: the Boeing 737 Max 8. Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges, who announced the findings on Sunday, said the government would release more detailed information within a month.

    As Russell Lewis reported Sunday for NPR's , the similarities involve an anti-stall system on both jets, designedto ascend and descend erratically, suggesting the pilots struggled to maintain control.

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