No survivors on crashed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 flight

cde.news desk 10 March 2019, 13:24 · 1 min read

epa07426966 A handout photo made available by Ethiopia Airlines shows the Ethiopian carrier's CEO Tewolde GebreMariam posing among debris at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 en route to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, 10 March 2019. All passengers onboard the scheduled flight ET 302 carrying 149 passengers and 8 crew members, have died, the airlines says. EPA-EFE/Ethiopia Airlines / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Officials in Ethiopia are reporting that there are no signs of survivors on an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 on Flight ET 302 that crashed Sunday morning en route to Nairobi, Kenya.

The aircraft, carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, crashed near Bishoftu, some 50km outside of the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

: Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 (ET-AVM), the same aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia on 10 March 2019, is seen at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when it was first delivered to Ethiopia on 02 July 2018.

There is no indication so far on what caused the accident. According to Kenya’s Transport Minister people from 35 nationalities were on board the plane amongst them British, Italians, Canadians, Americans and Dutch.

Another plane of the same model was involved in a crash five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.

The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines calls itself Africa’s largest carrier and has ambitions of becoming the gateway to the continent.

Via Sky News

Topics Ethiopian Airlines