Who finished them?What about the eye witnesses that say the airplane exploded in the air including the Transport Minister who said it exploded in the air ‘but not military one’??? By just turning an airplane even to a wrong by itself cannot crash an airplane unless followed by another cause.Please tell them not to try to fool us any more!

R.I.P my fellow ethiopians

May all the souls on this flight R.I.P

I cannot think of how the pilot & co-pilot feel at the last 40 seconds. May they all RIP.

What a report ! will never take a flight if a plane is made to crash just like that because a communication gap between pilot and co-pilot (if we even believe the report’s findings)….what about the correctness of the tower instructions ? we are not talking about a Formula 1 race car here… can’t buy this too simplified scenario…too easy to blame the ones who are not here to defend… may all the victims RIP…

France is one country you dont trust with true information, coming from french sources.
Paris is a good spot for controversial accidents reports ..Lady Diana’s is one of these statictics.

I agree with all of you. I think the Control Tower is speaking with both the pilot & co-pilot. In the arabic newspaper Al Akhbar, they are blaming the crew for the crash. If anyone knows arabic, please write a comment regarding the witness seeing a ball of fire, and the transport minister comment about the explosion in their website http://www.al-akhar.com Unfortunately, I do not know arabic, if not, I would comment there. I think a trainee pilot would know how to follow instructions. I think the plane must have already an engine problem, that was one of the reasons the pilot had requested to abort the plane and returned to Beirut.

Once again, yet another poorly written , judgemental report, painting Ethiopian flight crews to be completely inept! This investigation has barely even started so let’s not go pointing fingers just yet.
All i can say is that judging by Ethiopian’s last two accidents (‘88 and ‘96) which were NOT “human error”, they have some of the most dedicated and skilled flight crews, who are a credit to the Airline, and quite frankly make some Europian flight crews look inept!

I don’t get what they are trying to point out….. I don’t get the sense being told that the plane was intact before it reached the water…… Come On! What happened to the words of the Witnesses who saw the fire explosion on the sky (the person from the gas station and the navy people)? How about the medical prove given out about the identified skin burn on the retrieved bodies?? You think this can be wiped out.

Another question, How come the Professional Lebanese divers were not allowed on the rescue process from the beginning while other were participating?? How come the Voice recorder was found out of its Shield which was previously found empty? Isn’t the shield (box) made as a protection for the devise???? How come the exact wording which was gave from the control tower is not clearly shown as the crew in charge communication?? As one of the person (Flintstone) said it well, let alone a Pilot in charge, a trainee Pilot and to the least an ordinary person can follow instruction and pass it as told…..

Please stop the nonsense and tell us the truth which we all seek for…. Don’t blame those who are not here to defend themselves. Let their soul rest in peace.

WE STILL SEEK FOR THE TRUTH AND GET THE QUESTIONS REVOLVING ANSWERED…FORGET THE GARBAGES!!!

we don’t know what and who to believe..the control tower said he instructed the pilot to change its direction but he ignored it..what a monster just happened to be there which couldn’t be predicted before 150 seconds

you guys your self told us eye witnesses saw the plane came down like a ball of fire and now you are telling us it was intact before hitting the water..do you have any explanation about the health minister Jawad Khalifeh word that…“The plane exploded during flight and the cabin, as well as the bodies of those on board, were dispersed into the sea, in different locations,” he said, trying to explain why some of the corpses were found dismembered. what about the blown off heads found, hands and feet scattered, typical effects of an explosive blast….

Not gloating but a recent report by usually very reliable inside site called DEBKA states pretty clearly it was a bomb aboard and the the condition of the recovered victims bodies well indicate this.
Further it says Fench security officials were on board plus ambassador’s wife and also expected on flightwere high-flying Hezbollah members who changed flight at last moment.

the bomb could have been detenated from the ground not far from land. I reckon either a missile or a bomb on board..some sort of explosives were used. Its definitely not a pilots error nor a stormy weather.of course for security reasons they keep ‘hushhushing’ the truth…yaharam

Do you know that in As Safir newspaper, they said that it was pilot error based on the last sentence that the pilot said which is “We’re finished, God have mercy on us!” If the pilot had an engine failure, airport traffic controller gave a wrong vectoring, and the pilot knew he cannot do anything, even he tried to follow the heading the ATC gave him, the plane could not turn…What is the pilot going to say?? He knows he is dying…Is he supposed to say: Hurray! If the Lebanese Officials put themselves in his shoes, let say in a car accident, and they know they are dying…Tell me what they are going to say, other than pray Allah to have mercy on them…What a stupid, ignorant accusations about the pilot!

Wasnt this same sentence heard when a plane came down with 30 egyptian army officials training in the USfew years ago.. Do we believe anything these investigators say??? of course not..they can release whatever info they want to the media..but is it true or false??? Bingo:false

Planes fly in stormy weather in the US all the time.Stormy weather will still allow the pilot to get out of it or at least communicate with the tower…There was an explosion on the plane..It could have been the engine or the fuel tank or a bomb…we will find out the truth one day.

THE LAWSUIT BY CRASH VICTIMS RELATIVES IS GOING INTURN BITE THE FORMER ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES OR THE NOW WOYANE AIRLINES. UNLESS WOYANE IS REMOVED FROM THE AIRLINES AND THE STANDARD OF ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES IS RESTORED QUICKLY , IT IS SAD TO SAY BUT ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES IS DEAD FOREVER AND IS REPLACED BY THE DANGER FILLED WOYANE AIRLINES.

actually onthe language they were speaking “we are finished” means closer to “we are dying” . but about the explosion….? we really need some explanation on that.

Who want to hear the truth?? honestly the truth will never be found in Lebanon. Only the poor suffer and pay the price.

well it is obvious that the truth, if could be told, will definitely be to the disadvantage of either the airlines, the Lebanese or Boeing. Therefore people are suspicious of whatever possible report. Anyway let the investigators release the true finding for God’s sake, and leave the judgement for the public.