France is not handling Ethiopian air-crash analysis

France’s civil aviation safety authority won’t be analysing flight-recorder data from an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max flight that crashed earlier this month, according to a person familiar with the investigation. No reason was given for the decision, which could be announced as soon as late Wednesday by Ethiopian authorities, said the person, who asked not be named. Analysing the data is a step further than the decoding France’s Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses has already carried out, and while Ethiopia is overseeing the investigation of the crash, agencies including the US NTSB have also been providing technical assistance. French experts at the BEA successfully downloaded the voice and data recordings after officials in the East African country refused to hand them to the US officials. <br/>