Investigators will be looking the fact that the ill-fated Boeing 737 Max is the same make an model as the Lion Air flight that crashed shortly after take off in Jakarta less that five months ago.

Ethiopian Airlines is sub-Sahara Africa’s largest carrier with the  newest fleet.

It has a solid safety record. Nine years an Ethiopian Airliens plane crashed into the Mediterranean after taking off from Beirut with the loss of all 90 people aboard.

It is too early to offer reasons for today’a crash but it impossible not to take account of the cast that, like the Lion Air disaster that killed all 189 people aboard, it involved new aircraft from the same manufacturer.

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