High speed, then a failed climb for doomed Ethiopia flight - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which crashed killing 157 people, had an unusually high speed after take-off before the plane reported problems and asked permission to climb quickly, said a source who has listened to the air traffic control recording.

Experts say pilots typically ask to climb when experiencing problems near the ground in order to gain margin for manoeuvre and avoid any difficult terrain. Addis Ababa is surrounded by hills and, immediately to the north, the Entoto Mountains. On Saturday, investigators began studying the cockpit voice recorder. Along with the flight data recorder, the information will be evaluated by Ethiopian authorities, teams from Boeing,and U.S. and EU aviation safety authorities to try to determine the cause of the crash.The Ethiopian flight was set to follow the Standard Instrument Departure from the airport and followed standard procedure with a first contact just after departure,the source said.

No more than two minutes later, the air traffic controller was in communication with other aircraft when the voice from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 interrupted, saying “break, break”- signalling that other non urgent communications should cease. He sounded very scared, the source said.

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