Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes after take off with 157 people on board
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An Ethiopian Airlines plane en route to Nairobi crashed with 149 passengers and eight crew onboard, the airline said.
All on board are reported to have been killed.
The Boeing 737 is believed to have crashed six minutes after take off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, according to local reports.
According to a statement from the airline, the flight took off at 8.38am and lost contact six minutes later, crashing near the city of Bishoftu less than 40 miles to the southeast of Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed offered condolences to the families of those who had been lost.
The airline said the plane was a Boeing 737 800 Max, the same model aircraft involved in the Indonesian Lion Air crash in October in which the plane plunged into the sea shortly after take off, with 189 people killed.
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