Preliminary report shows significant similarities between Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes

Pilots on board Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 battled the plane's automated systems for nearly the entire duration of the 6-minute flight, according to a preliminary report into the crash obtained by CNN. Unable to stabilize the 737 Max 8 plane even after following the emergency procedures recommended by Boeing, the pilots tried together to pull the jet's nose up repeatedly during the last moments of the flight, the preliminary report revealed. But the downward force of the aircraft was too great to overcome. The problems on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight mirror those encountered on the doomed Lion Air flight 610 -- which operated the same 737 Max 8 model and crashed in October -- in what could be a major blow to Boeing as it struggles to get the aircraft back in service.

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