No survivors among 157 passengers and crew on crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight
An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members crashed shortly after takeoff from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, on Sunday.
Despite search and rescue efforts, Ethiopia's state broadcaster announced that there were no survivors. The plane, a new Boeing 737 that was delivered to Ethiopian airlines in November 2018, was on a regularly scheduled flight en route to Nairobi and lost contact with ground control about six minutes after takeoff. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
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Al Jazeera reported that the crash was the first major accident involving Ethiopian airlines since 2010, when a passenger plane exploded after taking off from Lebanon, killing 83 passengers and seven crew members.
