The pilot's communication shows that the Boeingplanet got the problem directly

Three minutes after the start came the pilot's panic-stricken message to the airport in Addis Ababa: ”Request to be allowed to return home.”

Almost immediately after the start, he had noticed that the aircraft is accelerated to an abnormal speed, " says a person who reviewed communications in air traffic during the Thursday to the New York Times. The person wished to remain anonymous because the data have not yet been published.

also observed that the aircraft, a new Boeing 737 Max 8, hovered several hundred feet in height, and all contact between the flygkontrollanterna and the aircraft disappeared five minutes after the start on Sunday.

– It is most abnormal is the speed, " says John Cox, a luftfartssäkerhetskonsult and former 737-pilot to the newspaper. The question is why, he continues. The flight is accelerating much faster than it should.

the Control room at the same time had contact with two other ethiopian flights were in the vicinity and ordered them to remain at a higher altitude when they learned that the affected aircraft had a problem. It was then, as the pilot, according to the radioavlyssningarna, with panic in his voice must have asked to return to the airport, " says the anonymous person to the New York Times. After receiving klarttecken to return, swung the plane to the right and then broke the contact with the control room.

to draw any conclusions about the reasons why the plane crashed. The so-called black boxes, the voice and flygdatainspelarna which contains more detailed information about the flight's final minutes, arrived to France on Thursday for further analysis.

It was on Sunday morning that Boeingplanet from the airline Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board were killed, among them were four Four of them were swedes.