The black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed on Thursday have been flown to Paris for analysis.
Urgency is mounting to determine the causes of Sunday’s crash as Boeing finds its entire fleet of the model grounded after it emerged the plane experienced similar difficulties to an Indonesian Lion Air flight in October, which also crashed minutes after takeoff.
Ethiopia does not have the equipment to process the data from the black boxes. Germany could not the boxes either. They claimed they not read the software used by Boeing.
US Federal Aviation Administration acting chief Daniel Elwell said the black box flight data recorders had been damaged.
Delegates at the One Planet Summit in Kenya observed a minute of silence in Kenya, on Thursday.