Ethiopian Airlines crash report blames pilot
Ethiopian News, News Tuesday, January 17th, 2012ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Airlines officials say a draft report prepared by Lebanese authorities blames pilot error for a 2010 crash that killed 90 people.
They reject the findings of the report, due to be released Tuesday.
Airline officials say the report blames the pilot for not following instructions from the control tower.
Ethiopian Airlines managing director Tewolde Gebremariam said Tuesday he believes Lebanese authorities withheld information and that their final report is incomplete and biased.
Captain Desta Zeru says that the airline believes an explosion in the air caused the crash.
Ethiopian flight ET409 went down in bad weather shortly after take off from Beirut in January 2010 and left no survivors.
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The Ethiopian regime was undergoing replacing Oromo and Amara pilots. I think they put a trainee pilot on that day.
tolla
No politics around, I would like you to convince or confuse me how Lebanese authorities better than the Ethiopian.
My point was why we didn’t hear any thing from the primary investigators of the accident…As far as my information is concerned the Box was under microscopic examination of FBI
All,
Despite our differences with tyrant MZ’s mercenary regime, we should reject the Lebanese Authorities’ fake labeling and defaming of the reputable Ethiopian Air-Lines.
Following the crash, they were quick to blame the pilot without any investigation.
The authorities were at it for a sustained campaign of attacks against the Air-Lines.
I was watching a report after the accident when a British journalist with an indepth knowlege of Ethiopian had refuted the Lebanese allegations of pilot’s errors live on the CNN!
The so called findings that blamed the crew were predicted as drips of leaks were spread through rumours and off-line briefings for very long periods.
Hence, this is no finding at all and the jury is out as to what may have happened/led to the crash. We should stand to reject a fixture of convenience at the expense of Ethiopian and of the pilot who was one of the most experienced!!
Regards
Biri
@teshome, I think they are better than Ethiopian authorities don’t you think?
Lebanese authorities report, is it worthy trust?