Plane trying to get the nose up but an automatic leveling future in the plane seems to have been fighting them pushing the nose down. The pilots on that flight requested permission to return to the airport because of the trouble they were having with that aircraft, but shortly after making that request, the plane went down, hit the ocean. 189 People Killed. Then this weekend on sunday,ethi 737 max 8. The new ititeration. 157 people were killed and the circumstances appear to have been remarkably similar. The investigation into the crash this weekend in ethiopia has just begun. We dont know how closely it will be mapped onto the circumstances of that other recent plane crash of that other same kind of plane in indonesia, but this one was very soon after take off, while the plane was ascending, flight data shows the plane initially assented as normal then descended, then it ascended sharply again while accelerating and as in the previous crash in indonesia, the pilot radioed back and ask