Ethiopia plans to release interim jet crash report as probe continues

Ethiopia plans to release an interim report into the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash ahead of the first anniversary of the accident next month, according to an official Saturday. "We are not ready to release the final report and so we are releasing an interim one which will come out before the anniversary of the accident. We are finalising it," Amdye Ayalew, the country's chief crash investigator, said. He declined to give a precise date for the release of the final report. Under rules overseen by the ICAO, Ethiopia should publish a final report by March 10, the crash anniversary. ICAO is not participating in the investigations into the incident. A senior official at the ministry of transport, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the final report was far from completion. <br/>