While investigations into the cause of the devastating crash is well underway, data by the Swedish-based flight tracking organization shared to Twitter states, the plane had “unstable vertical speed”
“Data from Flightradar24 ADS-B network show that vertical speed was unstable after takeoff”.
The safety of the Boeing 737-8 Max has been called into question as Ethiopian has grounded its entire 8 Max fleet.
The airline has yet to determine the cause of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet that crashed about 6 minutes after take-off, en route to Nairobi on Sunday – but has grounded the fleet as an extra safety precaution. None of the 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard survived the fatal incident.
The Ethiopian Airlines incident is the second in less than six months with the new Boeing aircraft. A Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight went down over the Java Sea in late October 2018, killing all 189 people on board.