According to the tweet, the partially damaged black box or flight data recorder (FDR) was recovered by investigators combing the site of the crash where a huge crater containing the debris of the plane stretches over a large area of agricultural land.
With the discovery of the black box, investigators may be able to determine the cause of the tragedy in which all 157 people on board were killed.
The brand new aircraft fell from the sky six minutes after takeoff from the Bole International Airport.
A body had been set up to investigate the cause of what is potentially one of Ethiopia’s biggest aviation disaster of the modern era.