BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — As investigators work to figure out what caused a plane crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people, aviation experts at Western Michigan University's College of Aviation are cautioning against a rush to judgement about what went wrong.
"(Aviation) is a very complex environment," WMU Executive Director of Flight Operations Tom Grossman told 24 Hour News 8. "To try to find out why something as horrific as this happened takes a lot of analysis."
Investigators have recovered the black boxes, essentially data and voice recorders, from the Ethiopian Airlinesplane that went down Sundaynorth of Addis Ababa. The information will be analyzed to help figure out what wrong.
"Everybody that's associated within the industry, whether it's the airline employees or even travel agents, this is heart-wrenching," Grossman said of the crash.
This is the second major crash in six months involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner, calling into questionthe plane's overall safety.
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