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Accident Pilots Well Versed on Max AD, Says Ethiopian Airlines

The Ethiopian carrier refutes a report suggesting the pilots did not receive sufficient training.

An AD issued on November 7 required a revision to the chapters in the airplane flight manual dedicated to certificate limitations and operating procedures for addressing runaway stabilizer in the Boeing 737 Max 8. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by N1_Photography)

By Gregory Polek • Senior Editor

March 21, 2019

The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed outside Addis Ababa on March 10 knew the procedures identified by the Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive issued after the accident involving a Lion Air Max 8 off the coast of Indonesia, Ethiopian Airlines asserted in a statement issued Thursday. The airline also stressed that the pilots completed the Boeing-recommended and FAA-approved differences training mandated for their transition from the Boeing 737-800NG to the Max 8. The statement comes hours after the publication of a report in the New York Times indicating that the pilots did not receive training in Ethiopian Airlines’ Max 8 simulator. The airline neither confirmed nor denied that the pilots did, in fact, receive additional simulator training on the Max 8, however.

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