NASA data reveals that two 737-MAX pilots had to override automated controls that made their planes nosedive.
The captain disconnected autopilot and the plane began to climb.
The pilots talked it over later,"but can't think of any reason the aircraft would pitch nose down so aggressively", the co-pilot recounted.they were looking at the possible role of the MAX's automated anti-stall technology as a factor in a Lion Air crash in October shortly after take-off from Jakarta.
Data indicated that the pilots struggled with repeated nose-down commands from the plane before it crashed into the Java Sea and killed 189 people. Concern about the MAX's safety returned on Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines MAX 8 crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
The jet showed an unstable vertical speed after take-off, air traffic monitor Flightradar24 said, and the senior Ethiopian pilot sent out a distress call.
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