Pilot of downed Boeing plane reported flight-control problems

Published March 13, 2019 11:24am ET



The pilot of the second Boeing 737-8 MAX that crashed over the weekend was having flight-control problems soon after takeoff, a new report said Wednesday.

The pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines plane “reported back to air-traffic controllers that he was having flight-control problems,” the president of that airline told the Wall Street Journal.

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