Black box shows 'clear similarities' between Ethiopian Airlines, Lion Air crashes

Ethiopia's transport minister Dagmawit Moges on Sunday said that the black box data of Ethiopian Airlines indicated "clear similarities" between the crash that took place last week and Lion Air which crashed in Indonesia last year.Moges said that the condition of "black boxes" (flight data recorder) was good and enough data had been recovered. She said that the Ethiopian transport ministry's Accident Investigation Bureau will release a preliminary report in 30 days on the fate of Flight 302 at the time of the crash."During the investigation of the FDR (flight data recorder), clear similarities were noted between Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610, which will be the subject of further investigation," Moges was quoted by The Washington Post as saying.Initial data from the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines jet showed an erratic flight course when the plane was in the air for about six minutes before it crashed into a field just outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's ...