The black box from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane showed 'clear similarity' to the Lion Air crash near Indonesia last year, Ethiopia's transport minister has revealed.
Dagmawit Moges said the accidents that killed a total of 346 people were similar after an investigation was launched into the Boeing Max 8 aircraft model involved in each incident.
The Lion Air jet went down in the Java Sea in October and killed 189 people after it vanished from radar 13 minutes after departing Jakarta airport.
The 157 victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 last week came from 35 countries and included a number of humanitarian workers headed to Nairobi, Kenya.
The black box flight recorder from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet, was sent to be investigated in le Bourget, north of Paris, by French air accident investigation agency BEA
Boeing 737 Max 8s have been grounded worldwide following the latest disaster.
French investigators said they had successfully downloaded the cockpit recorder data from the Ethiopian flight last night and had transferred it to the Ethiopian investigation team.
Work on the flight data recorder was resumed today.
It came as thousands of mourners turned out for a mass funeral for victims of the Ethiopian plane crash - with family members given sacks of earth to bury in place of the remains of their loved ones.
As many as 17 empty coffins were draped in the national flag as they were marched through the streets of Addis Ababa today - near the crash site.
The service followed officials delivering bags of earth to family members the victims of the crash instead of the remains of their loved ones because the identification process is expected to take a long time.
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Mourners of victims of the crashed accident of Ethiopian Airlines react beside coffins during the mass funeral at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa
The crash of Flight ET 302 minutes into its flight to Nairobi on March 10 killed 157 people on-board and caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft model involved in the disaster
Victims of the crash came from 35 countries and included many humanitarian workers headed to Nairobi. An unnamed woman cries at the funeral today.
The service came a day after officials began delivering bags of earth to family members of the 157 victims of the crash instead of the remains of their loved ones because the identification process is expected to take such a long time
An elderly man cries and holds up the picture of who is believed to be a female relative at the mass burial. Other mourners wp around the coffin
Relatives carry portrait photos of smiling loved ones as they mourn next to their coffins during the ceremony
The victims of the crash placed photographs of their loved ones on the empty coffins. They are pictured touching them at the service today
Coffins of victims of the crashed plane are gathered during the mass funeral. The bright orange coffins are draped in the Ethiopian flag
Workers carry bricks and a coffin of a passenger of the plane crash at the wall vault cemetery of Balewold Church, part of the Holy Trinity Cathedral Church
A crew member for Ethiopian Airlines mourns the passing of her colleagues and appears to hold a picture above her head during the funeral
An Ethiopian Airlines crew member uses a sash around her shoulders to wipe away tears beneath her sunglasses
Elias Bilew worked with a victim called Sintayehu Shafi for the past eight years.
Bilew said: 'He was such a good person.
'He doesn't deserve this. He was the pillar for his whole family.'
Some of the victims' family members confirmed they were given a 1kg sack of scorched earth taken from the crash site.
'The soil came as it became impossible to identify bodies and hand over remains to family members,' one family member said.
'We will not rest until we are given the real body or body parts of our loved ones.'
Two of the victims' family members said they were given 1kg bags of soil to go in the coffins while the remains are being identified
Mourners carry pictures and wear tops with their loved ones on them at the funeral. One woman (bottom centre) appears to have a picture of a young man in graduation robes on her top
A woman mourns next to a picture on a coffin of a young woman smiling. It is not known if the unnamed woman is related to the victim
Funeral workers lift one of the orange coffins next to a van. An unnamed man holds a portrait of one of the victims of the crash last week while a woman (left) cries
An Ethiopian Airlines crew member raises a flower in her hands to her head as pallbearers carry the coffins of her colleagues
An Ethiopian government official also confirmed the soil was being handed out.
Forensic DNA work has begun on identifying the remains but it may take six months to identify the victims.
However, authorities say they will issue death certificates within two weeks.
Muslim families have held prayers for the dead and are anxious to have something to bury as soon as possible.
Interpol and Blake Emergency Services, hired by Ethiopian Airlines, will work with Ethiopian police and health officials to identify the bodies, Dagmawit Moges, Ethiopia’s Minister of Transport said yesterday.
She said: 'Preparation for the identification process has already started and we will make sure that the post-mortem investigation will start as soon as possible.'
Many relatives have gathered at the rural, dusty crash site near Ethiopia's capital to pray.
French investigators said they had successfully downloaded the cockpit recorder data and had transferred it to the Ethiopian investigation team without listening to the audio files last night
Ethiopian Airlines crew members mourn with white flowers as pallbearers carry the coffins of their colleagues who died in the crash
A pallbearer wearing a black hate carries the coffin of a passenger from the plane crash during the burial ceremony
Workers carry a coffin of a passenger of the crash into the wall vault cemetery at Balewold Church. Multiple people help lift the coffin
Service workers carry a coffin of a passenger of the crash inside the wall vault cemetery at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Church in Addis Ababa. The Cathedral is the highest ranking Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in the city
Devotees hold candles during a special service for the families of the victims of the crashed plane in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Nairobi, Kenya
Experts from the US National Transportation Safety Board and Boeing are among those involved in the investigation into the model.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has said satellite-based tracking data shows that the movements of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 were similar to those of Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed off Indonesia in October, killing 189 people. Both involved Boeing 737 Max 8 planes.
The planes in both crashes flew with erratic altitude changes that could indicate the pilots struggled to control the aircraft. Shortly after their takeoffs, both crews tried to return to the airports but crashed.
Boeing 737 Max aircraft, pictured here at the Farnborough International Air Show last year, has been grounded across the world since the crash
A graph shows the vertical air speed of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 between takeoff and crash
Data from Lion Air Flight 610 is more detailed and shows similar dramatic oscillations
Preliminary data from Ethiopian Airlines flight shows wild swings in the aircraft's vertical speed before the crash, indicating the craft was climbing, levering off, diving, and climbing again.
The data, though more sketchy and preliminary, is strikingly similar to the vertical air speed data from Lion Air Flight 610.
Experts say the oscillations in vertical speed suggest the culprit may be the relatively new automated anti-stall system on the 737 MAX, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
The system was designed to prevent the 737 Max from climbing too steeply and stalling, a problem that emerged when engineers discovered the placement of the plane's larger engines sometimes caused the craft to pitch up during climbs.
In the two crashes, vertical speed oscillation of roughly 15 to 20 seconds is a telltale sign that suggests the MCAS system may have been involved, R. John Hansman Jr., a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the New York Times.
He said some oscillation is natural due to turbulence, but would typically have a span of either less than eight seconds or more than a minute.
It has now been revealed that the discovery of the screw-like device at the scene finally convinced US officials to also ground the jet model.
The so-called jackscrew is used to set the trim that raises and lowers the plane's nose, according to a person involved in the investigation.
The source, who wishes to remain anonymous, added that the investigation found the device was configured to push the nose down.
Graphic above shows how the jackscrew had been configured on the flight
The US and many other countries grounded the Max 8s as the US-based company faces the challenge of proving the jets are safe to fly amid suspicions that faulty sensors and software contributed to the two crashes that killed 346 people in less than six months.
The US National Transportation Safety Board has sent around 16 members to assist the investigation.
Boeing said it supports the grounding of its planes as a precautionary step, while reiterating 'full confidence' in their safety.
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