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This plane crash takes us to the African country of Ethiopia, which is located next to the following countries: Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, registered as Echo Tango- Alpha Victor Juliet (ET-AVJ), was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport (IATA: ADD, ICAO: HAAB), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Jome Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK), Nairobi, Kenya, on the 10th of March 2019, the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft which was operating this flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, six minutes after take off, the crash killed al 157 people on board the plane.
Two minutes into the flight, the plane's MCAS (Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System) system activated, it pitched the plane down into a dive towards the ground, the pilots struggled to control it and prevent the nose from diving further, but the plane continued to lose altitude, the MCAS activated again, which dropped the nose of the plane even further down, the crew disabled the electrical trim system, which also disabled the MCAS system, however shutting off the system, they also shut off their ability to trim the stabiliser into a neutral position with the switch located on their yokes, the only way to move the stabiliser would be cranking the wheel by hand but the stabiliser was located opposite of the elevator, strong forces were pushing on the elevators, the pilots attempted to crank the stabiliser manually back into position which failed, the pilots turned the trim system back online which turned the MCAS system back online which pushed the nose of the aircraft further down, the crew then attempted to raise the nose of the aircraft but the aircraft continued to plunge towards the ground, the plane impacted the ground as nearly 1,100 kilometres per hour, the impact created a crater about 27 meters wide, 37 meters long and wreckage was driven up to 9.1 meters deep into the soil.
The summary of the crash was an MCAS design flaw.
Below is a video which explains what happened that day, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
