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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]
Ethiopian Airlines, the national airline of Ethiopia, [1] has a good safety record. [2] [3] [4] As of March 2019, the Aviation Safety Network records 64 accidents/incidents for Ethiopian Airlines that total 459 fatalities since 1965, [5] plus six accidents for Ethiopian Air Lines, the airline's former name. [6]
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the Boeing 737-8 MAX plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November.
Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash: Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972) [14] Christine Alalo, Ugandan police officer and peacekeeper (b. 1970) [15] Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952) [16]
An investigation has been launched after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday, killing all on board. WSJ aerospace reporter Robert Wall discusses the ...
Three months after the pilot delivered the warning, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed and killed all 157 people on board.
The Boeing 737 MAX airliner, which began service in 2017, was involved in two fatal accidents, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, that resulted from a malfunction of the aircraft's new flight stabilizing software, [1] the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday, killing 149 passengers and eight crew, the airline said, the same model that crashed during a Lion Air flight in ...