On March 10, 2019 a scheduled flight from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya didn't get a chance to make it to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After taking off within 6 minutes the plane crash near the town of Bishoftu. 144 people lost their lives that day becoming one of the deadliest crashes. New evidence has surfaced that it might have been a reason why the plane has crashed. "Officials investigating the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash believe that a new automated stall-prevention system was activated before the plane dived into the ground, two sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News." Not only has this stall prevention system was the cause of this crash but according to new source ABC, "The automated system — known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS — is suspected to have played a role in both the Ethiopian Airlines crash and last year’s Lion Air crash, which killed 157 and 189 people, respectively.
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