Boeing 737-8 Crash: SA-German citizen Max Thabiso Edkins dies in flight ET302 Ethiopian crash By Tessa Knight
On Sunday March 10, 157 people lost their lives aboard Ethiopian Airline flight ET302. Just 13 minutes after takeoff, the flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi experienced a currently-unknown critical failure and plummeted to the ground. There were no survivors.
Initial communications from the airline indicated that no South Africans were involved in the crash, but it is now known that Max Thabiso Edkins, a German-South African citizen originally from Lesotho, was on board the ill-fated flight.
According to his father, Max grew up in Lesotho and spent his time in rural areas playing outside. His family believes that his passion for the environment started in the bushes of his childhood home, and continued to grow despite moving to Germany as tensions in Lesotho rose in the late 1980s. The Edkins came to Cape Town in the 1990s, where Max attended the German International School. He later went to the University of Cape Town to study Environmental Sciences.
In recent years, Max had become well-known within the international climate change community, according to a statement released by The World Bank on Tuesday.
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