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| Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes Near Addis Ababa, Killing All 157 Onboard | |
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| An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said. A spokesman for the airline told state television that there were no survivors. | An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said. A spokesman for the airline told state television that there were no survivors. |
| Flight-tracking websites and news reports said the plane was a version of the 737 MAX 8. A Lion Air flight using the same model of plane went down in Indonesia in October, killing all 189 people on board. Officials are investigating whether changes to the Max 8’s automatic controls might have sent that flight into an unrecoverable nosedive. | |
| The flight took off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 a.m. local time and lost contact six minutes later, the airline said. The plane is believed to have gone down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, the airline said in a statement. | The flight took off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 a.m. local time and lost contact six minutes later, the airline said. The plane is believed to have gone down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, the airline said in a statement. |
| The office of Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister, expressed condolences on Twitter, as did President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. | The office of Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister, expressed condolences on Twitter, as did President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. |
| Boeing, the maker of the plane, said it was aware of the reports and was monitoring the situation. | Boeing, the maker of the plane, said it was aware of the reports and was monitoring the situation. |