Details have emerged about the last radio message communicated by the Ethiopian Airlines pilot before the deadly crash that killed 157, among them 32 Kenyans.
US-based Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that recordings from the black box recovered from the crash site revealed the pilot's last radio message.
One pilot, according to the Wall Street Journal, told the other "pitch up, pitch up!" before their radio died.
In aerodynamics, pitch-up is a severe form of a stall in an aircraft.
A stall occurs when an aircraft can no longer generate enough lift to counteract its weight which results in reduced speed.
WSJ had on Friday reported that a suspect anti-stall system, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), was activated shortly before the plane nosedived into the ground, causing a massive crater.
When the MCAS system notices that a plane has stalled, it tilts the nose of the aircraft in order to correct the error.
BBC reported that the flight crashed only six minutes into the flight.
American-based CNBC published that the plane flew out of the sky after the pilot was unable to regain control.
Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 had also announced that the plane had unstable vertical speed after take off.
