157 killed in Ethiopian Airlines flight crash

Monday, March 11, 2019

After take-off from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed killing 157 and passengers and crew aboard. Widely-used Boeing 737 aircraft which has a good safety record was involved in the crash.
After departure from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital the flight was heading for Nairobi and lost contact after six minutes.

The government said that 32 Kenyans were among the 157 people on board and the transport cabinet secretary, James Macharia said that plane heading to Nairobi had passengers from 34 countries. Further the Kenyan government had dispatched a team to Addis Ababa to get more accurate and updated information.

In the Boeing 737-800MAX flight had varied nationalities that included Canada (18), Egypt (6), Ethiopia (9), France (7), U.S.A (8), Netherlands (5), Slovakia (4), Sweden (3), China (8) as well as Britain (7).

There were two national each from Spain, Israel, Morocco and Poland. Belgium, Indonesia, Ireland, Mozambique, Norway, Saudi, Sudan, Somalia, Serbia, Togo, Uganda, Yemeni, Nepal, Nigeria had one national each.

A statement from Ethiopian Airlines released a statement that stated the aircraft B-737-800MAX with registration number ET-AVJ took off at 08:38am local time from Addis Ababa, Bole International Airport and lost contact at 08:44am.

In less than five months this will be the second major fatal incident involving the Boeing 737 800MAX and the aircraft was delivered to the airline just four months ago.

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