{"id":276297,"date":"2019-05-17T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEAgHw-ePdJMlBgO10VxGyDsqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowjtSUCjC30XQwjqi5AQ?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:35","slug":"washington-post-ethiopian-airlines-rejected-claims-that-et302-pilots-failed-emergency-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276297","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Ethiopian Airlines rejected claims that ET302 pilots failed emergency procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Washington Post reported that Ethiopian Airlines pushed back after FAA acting chief Daniel Elwell suggested pilots shared blame for the 10 March crash of Flight 302.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Washington Post: Ethiopian Airlines rejected claims that ET302 pilots failed emergency procedures\" \/>\n<p>Airline officials said their crew had followed emergency procedures and that attention belonged on Boeing\u2019s 737 Max design and certification failures already under global scrutiny. The dispute mattered because families, regulators, and the carrier\u2019s reputation all turned on who owned the fatal minutes after takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Airlines is a Red Sea and African aviation hub, so the technical fight was never only a U.S. regulatory story. It shaped how passengers and other African carriers judged Max safety.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as ET302 archive, the WaPo file records the airline\u2019s public defense beside parent testimony and Boeing investigation coverage from the same month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2019\/05\/17\/ethiopian-airlines-pushes-back-on-criticism-says-pilots-followed-emergency-procedures-before-crash\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines pushes back on criticism, says pilots followed emergency procedures before April crash&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington PostAirline officials said FAA chief Daniel Elwell&#8217;s attempt this week to place some of the responsibility for a deadly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754801,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276297\/revisions\/754801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}