Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crashes on way to Nairobi, Kenya - reports

Not looking good for this new plane

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Airlive has it.

BREAKING Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 involved in fatal accident

Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi has crashed.

Still very few details available on the accident but Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 (reg. ET-AVJ) was involved in a fatal accident.

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RIP Ethiopian Airlines crash victims.

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Second crash in one month

I wonder if the aircraft will be grounded

ET302 MSN 62450 ET-AVJ it appears, just over 4 months old.

Brand new jet

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Just in: Official statement from Ethiopian Airlines.

Confirm rescue operations are underway for flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa-Nairobi.

Lost contact with the plane 6 minutes after it took off.

149 passengers and 8 crew on board, no info on survivors or casualties

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That's reassuring

From the UAE


Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 plane crashes en route to Kenya, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says

It is not clear how many have died in the crash or which flight the prime Minister was referring to

An Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi crashed on Sunday morning, the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said, offering his condolences on social media.

It is not clear how many people were on board the Boeing 737 aircraft flying to the Kenyan capital but Mr Abiy offered his "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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UAE airlines (Emirates/Etihad/FlyDubai) have many Ethiopian crew.

FlyerTalk (frequent flyers) forum has a thread.

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737 MAX what the fukk?



Last Edited by Concorde Warrior F-BVFA on 03/10/2019 04:57 AM

It shows a climb to 8000ft MSL, then a slight drop to 7600ft and a climb back to 8600ft where the data ends at a speed of 383kts..

The airport elevation is 7625ft MSL.

It never really got any climb.

Another AoA / stall recovery / horizontal stabilizer autotrim problem like the last ones?

At 1000ft AGL, that's kind of a problem.

737 MAX. Big problem for Boeing.

I wonder if they will have to ground the whole fleet depending on what caused the crash.

Still too early to tell. They will have to find and then analyze the flight recorders.

I wonder if the wreck was located? Can't be too far away from the runway as the a/c crashed 6 minutes after take-off.

Full day light there.

I see no indication of this yet.

I had a dream a plane went down right after take off

just saw a mention on the local news and thought this must be something because otherwise my local news wouldnt be talking about some place across the planet where a plane went down.
something is up with this story...

Crash site seems to be on land. Will make it easier to retrieve the flight recorders.

Looking for updates.

it's probably a shoe bomber.....I mean come on "Ethiopian Airlines"??????

In my dream the plant couldn’t gain altitude aftervtaje off and crashed on land
Hitting wires and poles

Ethiopian s are mainly Christian

FR24

Timestamp UTC Callsign Position Altitude Speed Direction
1552196154 2019-03-10T05:35:54Z ETH302 8.972603,38.78352 0 23​ 149
1552196163 2019-03-10T05:36:03Z ETH302 8.972374,38.783669 0 1​5 123
1552196285 2019-03-10T05:38:05Z ETH302 8.972536,38.784248 0 2​2 73
1552196298 2019-03-10T05:38:18Z ETH302 8.973392,38.787186 0 7​6 73
1552196384 2019-03-10T05:39:44Z ETH302 8.994591,38.860725 802​5 250 74
1552196396 2019-03-10T05:39:56Z ETH302 8.998627,38.875168 815​0 266 74
1552196407 2019-03-10T05:40:07Z ETH302 9.002551,38.890701 782​5 300 76
1552196419 2019-03-10T05:40:19Z ETH302 9.006601,38.909645 772​5 331 78
1552196433 2019-03-10T05:40:33Z ETH302 9.010884,38.933842 772​5 358 81
1552196448 2019-03-10T05:40:48Z ETH302 9.013584,38.954159 782​5 377 83
1552196463 2019-03-10T05:41:03Z ETH302 9.016022,38.984146 860​0 383 86


10 Mar 2019 Addis Ababa (ADD) Nairobi (NBO) B38M (ET-AVJ) — 08:15 08:38 10:25
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a rest my case.

the last time I checked, Ethiopia could even feed itself....how are they running an airline???

The airport itself is at some elevation. Looking at the data the aircrraft can't have crashed very far from the runway.

It's full daylight in Ethiopia. There should not be too much difficulty locating the wreck.

Still looking for reliable info.

Source: Ethiopian Airlines

Flight ET 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 kilometres southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, the airline said, confirming the plane was a Boeing 737-800 MAX.

Yep, you'd be surprised, they're developing at an impressive rate, lots of new constructions and all that, but there's a lot of mining operations there now.
The country is going from one of the poorest to one of the richest in Africa.