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Parents Of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victim Ask FAA To Stop Certifying Unanalyzed Aircrafts

“They talk to us like they're Boeing,” the mother of 24-year-old Samya Stumo who died in the Flight 302 crash says of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Michael Stumo and his wife Nadia Milleron, who lost their 24-year-old daughter in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, hold up signs depicting those lost in the crash and on Lion Air Flight 610 during a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Nadia Milleron and Michael Stumo lost their daughter Samya Stumo in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash that killed 157 people in March, and they’re determined to prevent other families from experiencing the same tragedy.

But the federal agency in charge of keeping our skies safe isn’t making it easy, they say.

, associate administrator for aviation safety for the Federal Aviation after the October 2018 crash in Indonesia that killed all 189 passengers and crew on board, but the agency did not immediately take action.

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