A Preston dad has voiced his frustation three years after his son was killed on a Ethiopian Airlines flight.
Sam Pegram, 25, was amongst the 157 passengers and crew killed when Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX Flight ET 302 crashed on 10 March, 2019.
The crash took place six minutes after the 737 Max aircraft took off from Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi in Kenya.
Now his father, Preston’s Mark Pegram, is amongst the families concerned about how aviation authorities decided to allow Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to fly once more before publication of the official final accident report into Flight ET 302.
At the same, the continuing wait for publication of the accident report has caused significant delay to the Inquest proceedings into the deaths of British passengers.
Mark Pegram, the father of Sam Pegram, who was working for the Norwegian Refugee Council when he died in the crash of ET302, said: “It’s hard to believe that we are still waiting for the official report three years on from the accident.
“We have already seen agreements being drawn up to give Boeing immunity from criminal prosecution in the US and the lifting of the international flight ban before the report is even published.
“We need the report for the inquest and for all of us to be able to move forward from what has been a devastating experience for all involved.”
In March 2021, the Ethiopian Ministry of Transport announced that they were preparing to ‘…release the final accident investigation report in the near future’, but 12 months on and 3 years after the accident the report still remains unpublished.
Following the world-wide grounding of all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, the FAA in the US, EASA in the EU and the CAA in the UK all re-certified the aircraft type as fit to fly last year even though…
