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Ethiopia will send DNA samples taken from the victims of last month’s Boeing 737 Max jet crash for identification tests in London. The remains of the 157 people who died are currently in a hospital in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopia capital, Musie Yehyies, the spokesman for the transport ministry, said in an interview. Human tissue has been gathered by a team led by Interpol and the UK’s Blake Emergency Services, the official said, without saying exactly where the tests will be carried out. The Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that crashed south of Addis Ababa on March 10 was carrying 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, 18 Ethiopians including crew members, eight Chinese, eight Italians, and eight United States nationals among others. Ethiopian police have been working in collaboration with Interpol and Blake in gathering the remains, according to Musie.<br/>

United’s use of larger aircraft on routes previously flown by Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX jets is costing the carrier money in the short-term, the company’s President Scott Kirby said in a letter to employees on Tuesday. United, which owns 14 MAX jets and has dozens more on order, has been using its larger 777 or 787 aircraft to cover routes formerly flown by the suspended MAX planes, without being able to fill the extra last-minute seats. “Of course, we can’t keep this up forever,” Kirby said. Still, despite a series of adverse events in Q1 that also included a US government shutdown and extreme weather, Kirby said the company would pay eligible employees a one-time $100 bonus on April 17. United failed to meet its operational performance incentive targets in the quarter due to those headwinds, but Kirby said that with warmer weather ahead, he was “confident that we can pull off a spring and summer for the record books.”<br/>