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**Ehlgamxf** · 01-26-2010, 04:09 PM

Lebanon minister: Pilot in crash flew opposite way

BEIRUT – Lebanon's transportation minister says the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines jet did not fly in the direction recommended by the Beirut control tower before the fatal crash.
Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the tower "asked him to correct, but then he did a very fast and strange turn."
He says it's not clear why that happened or whether it was beyond the pilot's control
Like most other airliners, the Boeing 737 also is equipped with its own onboard weather radar which the pilot may have used to avoid flying into the storm cells.
No survivors had been found more than 24 hours after the crash. Searchers are trying to find the plane's black box and flight data recorder.

Lebanese military vessel scans the crash site of an Ethiopian airliner off the shores of the Lebanese town of Khaldeh, south of Beirut. Rescuers found bodies but no survivors.

01-26-2010, 04:09 PM	#12
Ehlgamxf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	Lebanon minister: Pilot in crash flew opposite way BEIRUT – Lebanon's transportation minister says the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines jet did not fly in the direction recommended by the Beirut control tower before the fatal crash. Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the tower "asked him to correct, but then he did a very fast and strange turn." He says it's not clear why that happened or whether it was beyond the pilot's control Like most other airliners, the Boeing 737 also is equipped with its own onboard weather radar which the pilot may have used to avoid flying into the storm cells. No survivors had been found more than 24 hours after the crash. Searchers are trying to find the plane's black box and flight data recorder. Lebanese military vessel scans the crash site of an Ethiopian airliner off the shores of the Lebanese town of Khaldeh, south of Beirut. Rescuers found bodies but no survivors.
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