The Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed, killing 149 passengers and eight crew, was the same model that crashed during a Lion Air flight in Indonesia in October.
Flight ET 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 kilometres southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, the airline said, adding that the plane was a Boeing 737-800 MAX, registration number ET-AVJ.
That model number does not exist however and multiple aviation websites have later identified the plane as a new 737 MAX 8, the same plane that crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189. Rescuers remove body bags from the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu.Passengers from 33 countries were aboard, said Tewolde in a news conference. The dead included Kenyan, Ethiopian, American, Canadian, French, Chinese, Egyptian, Swedish, British and Dutch citizens.At Nairobi airport, many relatives of passengers were left waiting at the gate for hours, with no information from airport authorities.
"We're just waiting for my mum. We're just hoping she took a different flight or was delayed. She's not picking up her phone," said Wendy Otieno, clutching her phone and weeping. Relatives comfort each other at a help centre set up for the relatives of passengers of crashed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302."No, we haven't seen anyone from the airline or the airport," he told Reuters at 1pm, more than three hours after the flight was lost."Nobody has told us anything, we are just standing here hoping for the best."Additional data from Flightradar24 ADS-B network show that vertical speed was unstable after take off.
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