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Flight 302 is Ethiopian Airlines' deadliest accident to date, surpassing the fatal hijacking of Flight 961 resulting in a crash near the Comoros in 1996. [2] [3] It is also the deadliest aircraft accident to occur in Ethiopia, surpassing the crash of an Ethiopian Air Force Antonov An-26 in 1982, which killed 73 people on board. [4]
Airlines in several countries grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 Aircraft after a deadly Ethiopian airlines crash which killed 157 people, and left no survivors.
He was one of the airline's most experienced pilots, having logged 10,233 flight hours, including 2,488 hours on the Boeing 737. The first officer was 23-year-old Aluna Tamerat Beyene. He was far less experienced than the captain, having worked for Ethiopian Airlines for only a year and having 673 flight hours, 350 of them on the Boeing 737.
The crash of a Boeing 737-200 at Bahir Dar Airport in September 1988 () ranks as the carrier 's fourth-deadliest accident, with 35 fatalities, out of 104 people on board. Following is a list of accidents and incidents involving Ethiopian Airlines aircraft.
Update for 9:27 a.m. PT March 11: Airlines in China and three other countries have suspended flights of their Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets in light of Sunday's catastrophic crash in Ethiopia. Ethiopian ...
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Days after the March 10 crash of a Kenya-bound Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing jet that killed all 157 people on board, strangers began calling or visiting bereaved ...
World's biggest planemaker Boeing faces escalating pressure after Ethiopia pointed out similarities between its crash and one in Indonesia last year, focusing on the safety of software installed ...
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan.On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked [1] en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi [2] by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. [3]