10 things you need to know today: March 18, 2019

Ethiopia identifies "clear similarities" in two Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes, New Zealand leader promises tighter gun laws, and more

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1. Ethiopian authorities cite 'clear similarities' in 2 crashes

Preliminary data from the flight recorders of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane that crashed a week ago, killing 157 people, show "clear similarities" to the deadly crash of a Lion Air 737 Max 8 in October, Ethiopia's transport minister, Dagmawit Moges, said Sunday. Moges did not discuss the similarities. Both planes were new, and crashed shortly after takeoff. Both aircraft flew with erratic altitude changes that could have indicated pilots struggling to control the jets. Thousands of people marched through the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday with empty caskets. Authorities have said recovering and identifying the bodies could take months.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.