the bbc‘s ferdinand omondi reports.he ethiopian orthodox church in nairobi. it has been a difficult week for many of them, from learning about the plane crash to absorbing the tragedy of the loss. several governments sent their representatives to mourn with the bereaved — from neighbouring countries to as far away as russia. passengers from more than 30 countries were on board the ethiopian airlines flight from addis ababa to nairobi. in ethiopia, similar memorial ceremonies were held. relatives wept and threw themselves on the coffins of victims at the holy trinity cathedral in the capital, addis ababa. some of the coffins contained charred earth from the crash site, because it has not been possible to recover the bodies. families have been told it would take up to six months to identify the remains. translation: what makes us depressed is the fact we didn't find any of her body parts. she was very brilliant, hope and future for her family and country. translation: she was very kind to people. i don't know how to descr

ferdinand omondi, bbc news, nairobi.et's go live now to seattle where we can speak to dominic gates, who's the aerospace reporter for the seattle times. thank you so much for your time. first of all, i wondered what your reaction was to what we have been hearing about ethiopian saying those early findings on the ethiopian airlines crash are showing clear similarities with the lion air crash. while the latest news isn't a surprise. over several days we have been finding out similarities about the crashes. what they have now is the crashes. what they have now is the full flight data from the black box and that is just a cementing and solidifying the idea that there are similarities. we have already seen the first three minutes of the flight the first three minutes of the flight trajectory. that looks similar. they found a pleat does make peace of the plane that moves the horizontal tail, the jack through, and the position of that in the wreckage these things are all pointing to similarities with the lion air crash. so, unfo