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MONDAY,MARCH9,2020| THEGLOBEANDMAILO NEWS | A

When air-safety investigators

release an interim report on the

crash of an Ethiopian Airlines

Boeing 737 Max some time

before Tuesday, they are likely to

place the blame on the jet’s

automated flight-control system

as well as on the pilots and their

training, but it’s unclear yet

which side will bear the brunt.

Experts in the U.S. are waiting

to see if a transcript of the

cockpit voice recorder is re-

leased, saying it will be used to

train pilots across the globe on

what to do when a software

glitch causes an in-flight emer-

gency.

The transcript may not come

until the final report, which is

expected later this year.

The crash on March 10, 2019,

that killed 157 people came

almost five months after a

similar 737 Max owned by Lion

Air crashed off the coast of

Indonesia, killing 189.

After the Ethiopia crash,

aviation authorities across the

globe grounded the Max until

Boeing proves it has fixed the

flight-control software.

The crash forced Chicago-

based Boeing to post its first

financial loss in more than two

decades, and shone a floodlight

on the U.S. Federal Aviation

Administration, which allows

employees of aircraft makers to

make key decisions in the proc-

ess that permits planes to fly.

Criticism has also been direct-

ed at Ethiopian Airlines’ pilots.

“It was pretty clear from the

get-go they really didn’t under-

stand what was happening to

the airplane,” said William

Waldock, a safety science profes-

sor at Embry-Riddle Aeronauti-

cal University.

“When they tried to correct,

they actually made it worse.”

Last week, a U.S. House of

Representatives committee said

a “culture of concealment” at

Boeing and poor federal over-

sight contributed to both Max

crashes.

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INTERIMREPORTON

ETHIOPIANAIRLINESCRASH

EXPECTEDEARLYTHISWEEK

Kamala Harris endorsed Joe Biden on Sun-
day and said she would “do everything in
mypower”tohelpelecthim,becomingthe
latest dropout from the Democratic race
for president to line up behind the former
vice-president in his battle with Bernie
Sanders for the nomination.
The decision by the California senator,
who was one of three black candidates
seeking to challenge U.S. President Donald
Trump, further solidifies the Democratic
establishment’s move to close circles
around Mr. Biden after his Super Tuesday
success. Her endorsement comes before
thenextroundofprimaries,withsixstates
voting Tuesday, including Michigan and
Mississippi.
Mr. Sanders, a Vermont senator, coun-
tered with his own major endorsement on
Sunday, announcing that civil-rights icon
Jesse Jackson was formally backing him.
Mr. Jackson appeared with Mr. Sanders
during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids,
Mich. In a statement released by Mr. Sand-
ers’s campaign, Mr. Jackson said Mr. Biden
had not reached out to him for endorse-
ment and Mr. Sanders had. He also said he
chose Mr. Sanders after the senator’s cam-
paign offered responses on 13 issues Mr.
Jacksonraised,includingprotectingvoting
rights, increasing funding for historically
black colleges and universities and com-
mitting to putting African Americans on
the Supreme Court.
InastatementonMr.Biden,meanwhile,
Ms.Harrissaid,“Thereisnoonebetterpre-
pared than Joe to steer our nation through
these turbulent times, and restore truth,
honour, and decency to the Oval Office.”
“He is kind and endlessly caring, and he
truly listens to the American people,” her
statementadded.Ms.HarrissaidtheUnited
States“isataninflectionpoint.Andthede-
cision voters make this November will
shape the country and the world our chil-
dren and grandchildren will grow up in. I
believe in Joe Biden.”
Among Mr. Biden’s former rivals, Amy
Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke,
Mike Bloomberg, Tim Ryan, Deval Patrick

and John Delaney have endorsed him. Mr.

Sanders has gotten the endorsement of

Marianne Williamson and Bill de Blasio.

AlsocomingoutforMr.BidenonSunday

were two prominent Mississippi Demo-

crats, formergovernor Ray Mabus and

Mike Espy, agriculture secre-

taryunderpresidentBillClin-

ton. Mr. Espy is also on the

ballotTuesdayasheseeksthe

party’s Senate nomination

for the chance to face the Re-

publican incumbent, Cindy

Hyde-Smith, in November.

Ms. Harris withdrew from

theraceinDecember,ending

a candidacy with the historic

potential of becoming the

first black woman elected

president. The former California attorney-

general was seen as a candidate poised to

attract the multiracial coalition of voters

that sent Barack Obama to the White

House, but she ultimately could not craft a

message that resonated with voters or se-

cure the money to continue her run.

Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders, two white

menintheir70s,arenowthefront-runners

forthenominationinwhatwasonceafield

ofcandidatesthatincludedseveralwoman

and much younger politicians.

Ms. Harris said in her statement that

“likemanywomen,Iwatchedwithsadness

aswomenexitedtheraceonebyone.”Four

years after Hillary Clinton was the party’s

nominee, “we find ourselves without any

woman on a path to be the Democratic

nominee for president.”

“This is something we

must reckon with and it is

something I will have more

to say about in the future,”

she said. “But we must rise to

unite the party and country

behind a candidate who re-

flects the decency and digni-

ty of the American people

and who can ultimately de-

feat Donald Trump.”

Mr. Biden on Friday won

the endorsement of former Massachusetts

governor Mr. Patrick, who was one of the

black candidates for the nomination. New

Jersey Senator Cory Booker hasn’t made a

public endorsement yet.

Black voters have anchored Mr. Biden’s

comeback since disappointing finishes in

early contests in overwhelmingly white Io-

wa and New Hampshire that put his cam-

paign on the brink of collapse.

ASSOCIATEDPRESS

Harrislatestformer rivalto backBiden

Senator’smovesolidifies

Democraticestablishment’s

effortstocloseranksaround

theformervice-president

WASHINGTON

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debatein2019.Ms.HarriswithdrewfromthepresidentialraceinDecember,andhas

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Thereisnoone

betterpreparedthan

Joetosteerour

nationthroughthese

turbulenttimes.

KAMALAHARRIS

U.S.SENATOR