A jetliner carrying 157 people crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ethiopian capital on Sunday, killing everyone on-board. 9News
Relatives were frustrated by the lack of information about loved ones.
Safety experts cautioned against drawing too many comparisons between the two crashes until more is known about Sunday's disaster. "Ethiopian Airlines is one of the safest airlines in the world. At this stage we cannot rule out anything," CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said.Ethiopian Airlines issued a list showing 35 nationalities among the dead, including 32 Kenyans and 18 Canadians.
The plane crashed six minutes after departing, ploughing into the ground at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, at 8:44am . The Boeing 737 Max 8 was one of 30 being delivered to the airline, Boeing said in a statement in July when the first was delivered. Sunday's crash comes as the country's reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has vowed to open up the airline and other sectors to foreign investment in a major transformation of the state-centered economy.
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