Ethiopian Airlines jet crash: Black boxes arrive in France

Black box of crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane has arrived in France for further investigation. 157 people were killed in the crash.

Paris: The French air accident investigation authority, known by its French acronym BEA, said it will handle the analysis of the black boxes retrieved from the crash site of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that left 157 people dead.

A BEA official said that the black boxes have already arrived in France but gave no time frame on how long the analysis could take.

Ethiopian Airlines said an Ethiopian delegation led by its accident investigation bureau had flown the flight data and cockpit voice recorders to Paris.

More than 40 countries, including the US, which had been one of the last holdouts, have grounded the 737 Max 8 after the second fatal crash involving the jet in recent months.