"It's a new stage in the mourning of families". The remains of the 10 French victims of the Boeing 737 MAX crash of Ethiopian Airlines, which occurred on March 10, were repatriated to Orly on Saturday morning. A ceremony of honor was scheduled at 11 am in the presence of the Secretary of State to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and the Interministerial Delegation of Assistance to Victims.
But if these repatriations mean some relief for families, their fight does not stop there. "We want the responsibilities to be established and justice done," insists Europe 1 Virginie Fricaudet, who lost her brother Xavier on the flight from Adis Abeba to Nairobi, six minutes after takeoff. "Flight safety must remain a top priority, and what happened should never have happened, the 157 victims of this robbery must have died for just cause," says the victim's sister.
The malfunction of a system pointed by two drivers from 2016
This crash plunged Boeing into a deep crisis by nailing all aircraft of the same type on the ground since then. Some families of victims have already lodged a complaint against Boeing, saying that the aircraft's failures were well known: a few months before the crash, a Boeing 737 MAX from an Indonesian company crashed into the sea with on board 189 people.
A thesis that seems to confirm the American Air Regulator (FAA), which accuses Boeing of hiding crucial documents on the 737 MAX. The company did not inform the agency of an exchange between two pilots going back to November 2016, revealing that the automatic system (MCAS) - implicated in the accident - which was to prevent the aircraft from leaving piqued made it difficult to drive in simulator. An exchange occurred one year before the certification of the device.