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Ethopian Airlines President
Protests FSF Crash ConclusionThe president of Ethiopian
Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, said in a recent letter to the Flight Safety
Foundation (FSF) that the loss of his airline’s Flight 409 on January 25, 2010,
shortly after takeoff from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (OLBA), was
not due to pilot error, but to a surface-to-air missile, a lightning strike or
some form of sabotage. Gebremariam took the foundation to task in a letter over
an FSF story (“Spiral Dive,” AeroSafety World, March 2012) highlighting the
Lebanese Ministry of Public Works and Transportation’s accident report about
Ethiopian 409, which he claimed was riddled with “numerous factual inaccuracies,
internal contradictions and hypothetical statements that are not supported by
relevant evidence.” The Lebanese accident report and the FSF story, both
following 409’s cockpit voice and fight data recorder information, said the two
Ethiopian pilots lost control of the Boeing 737-8 after a series of inconsistent
flight control inputs while the captain attempted to hand fly the aircraft
around a series of scattered thunderstorms over the Mediterranean Sea. After
listening to the same CVR, the airline president interpreted the story much
differently, claiming the Lebanese authorities did not conduct a thorough
investigation and made their decision to blame the pilots before all the
evidence had been collected. Gebremariam said his explanation for the crash is
born out by, “The significant eyewitness accounts, including the ATC controllers
and pilots from other flights in the area, that contained statements regarding a
‘fire ball’ at altitude in the sky.”
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