'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.
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.
