The 'black box' flight recorders recovered from the site of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, in which all 157 passengers and crew were killed, are to be sent to Paris on Thursday for analysis by the French air accident investigation bureau, the BEA, as the US joined a gowing number of countries which have introduced a flight ban on the aircraft.
French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by a delegation of business leaders, arrived on an official visit to Ethiopia on Tuesday, the second destination in a three-nation tour of East Africa that began with Djibouti and which will end in Kenya, in a bid to drum up closer economic ties in the region.
France's civil aviation authority, the DGAC, has announced a ban on Boeing 737 MAX airliners from flying 'into, out of, or over French territory', a move mirrored by several other European countries, in what it called 'a precaution' following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model on Sunday in which all 157 passengers and crew were killed.
Delays and cancellations were announced on Monday to Eurostar services at the Paris Gare du Nord terminal as French customs officers went on strike over what they said was poor planning for the demands of post-Brexit operations, a movement which also affected several airports around the country.
Residents of the rue Crémieux, a picturesque, cobblestoned street in central Paris, are demanding it be shut off to hordes of people taking pictures of themselves in front of their doorsteps and windows to post on social media site Instagram.
