Ethiopian Airlines emitted smoke before hitting ground: Eyewitness describes plane crash
World | March 12, 2019 6:58 IST157 people from 35 countries died in the crash six minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital for Nairobi.
157 people from 35 countries died in the crash six minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital for Nairobi.
As many as 149 passengers, including Indians, were killed when a Boeing 737 MAX plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa.
Further notice would be issued after consultation with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing on safety measures taken.
The crash happened at 8:44 a.m., six minutes after the months-old Boeing 737 Max-8 took off.
The plane reportedly carried nine passengers and three crew members, including the mayor of Taraira, a municipality located in the southeastern province of Vaupes.
The plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway.
However, there is no word on casualties.
"There were four Finnish citizens and their pilot in the plane, they all died," Finnish consul's wife Sally Ward told AFP.
A Lion Air plane crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday, likely killing all 189 people on board. The accident was a blow to the country’s aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and U.S.
Before Monday's crash the airline had not reported a fatal accident since 2004, when 25 people died when the DC-9 they were on crashed amid heavy rain at Solo City in central Java.
In last 20 years, 2017 was the only year which did not record any plane crash.
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The three survivors are a 6-year-old child, an adult man and an Italian doctor with an aid organization who was in surgery and in serious condition, Aguek said.
A family hiking in the Slide Mountain area Sunday afternoon told news channel that they heard an explosion, saw a glider spiraling to the ground and then heard another explosion.
The incident disrupted all airport services, including international flights. However, no human casualty has been reported, the report said, adding that the airport resumed its normal operations on Sunday, 12-hours after the incident.
The wreckage of the plane was recovered on Sunday morning in an area where it failed to communicate with the air traffic controller.
Preliminary information suggests that the 29-year-old mechanic stole the Horizon Air Q400 and took-off without permission from the ground control.
The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors' item, crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) peak in the east of the country on Saturday.
Some passengers got out under their power, some even wandered back to the nearby airport of Durango city to seek out relatives.
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