World News | US commission says Boeing Max may have hit a bird before crashing in 2019

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (AP) — U.S. accident investigators and Ethiopian authorities disagree on what caused a sensor failure in Ethiopia before the Boeing 737 Max crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa in March 2019.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it determined the poor sensor reading was caused by the impact of an object, most likely a bird.

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Ethiopian aviation authorities said the wrong reading from a sensor measuring the orientation of the plane’s nose was caused by an electrical problem that had existed since the plane was built.

The parties agreed that the sensor readings caused a new automatic flight control system on the Max to tip the plane’s nose down. The pilot was unable to regain control. The crash, which killed all 157 people on board, came less than five months after the Max crash in Indonesia killed 189 people.

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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued new comments on Tuesday, three weeks after it initially criticized Ethiopian findings on the cause of the crash, which grounded all Max jets worldwide for nearly two years .

Boeing will be arraigned Thursday in federal court in Texas on charges of defrauding the United States.

Relatives of some crash victims are expected to speak. The families are pushing the Justice Department to reopen a settlement in which Boeing agreed to pay $2.5 billion in exchange for the company not facing criminal prosecution over the way the plane was approved by regulators. (Associated Press)

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