Ethiopian Airlines 'Has Flown' Black Boxes Of Crashed Boeing To Paris

Ethiopia sends its plane's black boxes to Europe,The black box from the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday will be sent to Europe for analysis, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said on Wednesday.

Foreign investigators examine wreckage at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board. (Mulugeta Ayene, AP)

Ethiopian Airlines said on Thursday that the black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed with 157 people on board have been flown to Paris for analysis.

"An Ethiopian delegation led by Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has flown the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to Paris, France for investigation," the airline wrote on Twitter.

Urgency is mounting to determine the causes of Sunday's crash as Boeing finds its entire fleet of the model grounded after it emerged the plane experienced similar difficulties to an Indonesian Lion Air flight in October, which also crashed minutes after takeoff.

Ethiopia said it does not have the equipment to process the data and Germany said it would not analyse the boxes as it was unable to read the software used by Boeing.

Workers clean debris at Ethiopia plane crash site

Workers clean debris at the site of the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 passengers and crew in Ethiopia.

US Federal Aviation Administration acting chief Daniel Elwell said the black box flight data recorders had been damaged.

In Kenya, which lost 32 citizens in the crash, a minute of silence was observed on Thursday morning at the One Planet Summit on climate change attended by French President Emmanuel Macron.