The black box from the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday will be sent overseas for analysis, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said on Wednesday.

The US Federal Aviation Administration says it doesn't have sufficient data to order the grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX 8 aircraft that has been involved in two crashes and which has been grounded by 41 other countries this week, but US media reports say pilots of at least two of the Boeing planes reported problems last year.

In a press conference held at Ethiopian Airlines Headquarters this afternoon regarding Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed today 10 March 2019 shortly after takeoff en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines who had traveled to the scene of the crash remarked," It is too early to speculate the cause of the accident and further investigation will be carried out to find out the cause of the accident in collaboration with all stakeholders including the aircraft manufacturer Boeing, Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority and other international entities to maintain the international standard and information will be provided once the cause is identified.

An Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday was carrying passengers from more than 30 countries, the airline's CEO told journalists.

An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.

Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded in East Africa's busiest airport when aviation workers downed their tools early on Wednesday morning.

Flights were resumed at the M'etiga international airport in the Libyan capital here on Wednesday, a few hours after the authorities closed it due to "infiltration" of unidentified drone.

A CommutAir plane veered off a runway and onto grass while landing at Presque Isle's Northern Maine Regional Airport, injuring a pilot and three passengers, the company said on Monday.

Investigators have recovered the flight data recorder from a cargo plane that crashed on Feb. 23 in Texas, killing all three people on board, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday.

Planes at Salt Lake City International Airport collided with 280 birds last year, including one incident where a flock of birds hit a plane carrying 223 passengers and narrowly missed hitting the engine.