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Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed: 157 people died, including 8 Americans

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing-737 with 149 passengers on board crashed shortly after departure from the airport in the capital of Ethiopia, writes RIA News.

“The Boeing 737-800 MAX aircraft, registration ET-AVJ, took off at 08:38 local time from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa and lost contact at 08:44,” Ethiopian Airlines said in a press release.

The airline clarified that the tragedy occurred near the city of Debre Zeit.

On board the aircraft flying to Kenya, there were 149 passengers from 33 countries and 8 crew members. According to rescuers, no one survived the accident.

According to the airline, there were three Russian citizens on board. Their names are not called, writes TASS. According to Fox News, in the fallen plane there were also 8 US citizens.

The cause of the disaster is being investigated. According to the information of the portal Flightradar24, the vertical speed of the aircraft after takeoff was unstable. According to МКThe crashed plane was new, it was launched in November 2018. In addition, the very modification of the aircraft was the latest.

The company Boeing expressed condolences to the families of the victims and expressed the readiness of its technical team to assist in investigating the causes of the disaster.

The last accident with the Boeing 737-8 MAX was 29 in October 2018 of the year: then Lion Air crashed. All people aboard 189 died. The plane fell into the sea off the coast of Indonesia 13 minutes after takeoff.

Then it became known that the plane had fallen due to problems with the flight control sensors, and that the threat of a repetition of such a problem still exists for 250 liners Boeing 737 Max. This was warned by the US Federal Aviation Administration. In the use of American airlines is 45 such aircraft.

The last major accident involving Ethiopian Airlines passenger aircraft occurred in January 2010. Then the crash suffered a flight from Beirut, killing 83 passengers and 7 crew members.

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