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On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff. All 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board died. 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.
He had also been a Beechcraft 1900 first officer for CommutAir, and a flight instructor for FlightSafety International. [11]: 5 Blakely logged a total of 11,172 flight hours, including 1,252 hours on the Boeing 767. [11]: 3–4 Aska joined Atlas Air on July 3, 2017, and received his type rating on the Boeing 767 two months later.
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On October 17, 2019, the Saab 2000 operating the flight overran the runway after landing at its destination airport. Of the 42 passengers and crew on board, one passenger (identified as David Allan Oltman) was fatally injured when a propeller blade penetrated the fuselage , one was seriously injured and ten suffered minor injuries. [ 1 ]
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In December 2019, two years after the crash, the NTSB released the final report on the accident. It had been caused by the following: [24] The flight crew's failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering to exit an area of rising terrain, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack and an aerodynamic stall.
According to the final report, a key factor leading to the crash was the pilot's decision to fly the airfield traffic pattern at an airspeed of about 100 mph (160 km/h) with the landing gear extended. [18]: 3 The pilot lowered the gear about 2.7 nmi (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) from the runway threshold, in the downwind leg of the traffic pattern.
On 15 August 2019, the Airbus A321 operating the flight carried 226 passengers and seven crew. The flight suffered a bird strike after taking off from Zhukovsky and crash landed in a cornfield, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) away from the airport. All on board survived; 74 people sustained injuries, but none were severe.