ETHIOPIAN AIRLINE UPDATE: Families Of Victims Contacted… Airline

On Mar 10, 2019

Ethiopian Airline said on Sunday that it has contacted families of victims affected in one of the airline’s Boeing 737 passenger which crashed soon after take off.

It also says the company has teamed up with the Ethiopia’s Civil Aviation Authority and Transport Authority to investigate the crash.

According to the press release,” Ethiopian Airlines says it has “already contacted the families of the victims to inform them of the tragic accident”.

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“All stakeholders” will take part in the investigation, including the aircraft manufacturer Boeing.

The airline said none of the 149 passengers and eight crew members believed to be on board survived.

There were people from more than 30 nationalities on board.

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It was the second Boeing 737 Max-8 to crash in five months.

Meanwhile ,identities of the passengers aboard the airline have been disclosed, this include a Nigerian top professional (name with held), 35 Kenyans and 124 persons from 33 other countries of the world, earlier Sunday morning died on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed.

18 Canadians, eight Americans and seven British nationals were among the passengers.

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The crash happened at 08:44 local time, six minutes after the months-old Boeing 737 Max-8 took off.

The barely four months old Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 plane on a routine flight to Nairobi, Kenya from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, crashed shortly after takeoff on flight ET 302 at Bishoftu forest region.

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Sketchy Details of the dead showed that 149 passengers and eight crew members on board the airline.
Emergency officials have retrieved the wreckage of the plane and confirmed the deaths.

The Boeing 737 MAX8 was brand new had been delivered just four months ago.

There are no survivors at this time. The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted, saying “deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones”.

Already, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was the first to suggest a large casualty from the crash as the message on government’s Twitter handle read in parts: “The Office of the PM, on behalf of the Government and people of Ethiopia, would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning”.

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Shortly after the new broke, a Nigeria posted on his Fecebook page (name with held), saying “Oh my God my friend came to Canada with same Ethiopian airline three days ago, from Addis Ababa to Toronto.

He told me that they lost pressure midair and was such a scary thing; I almost freaked out waiting for them.

Here, it happened that they had to go back to Addis Ababa before they picked another flight for them be airlifted to Torornto Canada”.