A Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 crashed minutes after an early-morning takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew on board.
A Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 crashed minutes after an early-morning takeoff from Addis Ababa Sunday, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew on board, Ethiopian Airlines said as world leaders offered condolences to distraught next-of-kin.
Asked if the pilot had made a distress call, the CEO said"the pilot mentioned that he had difficulties and he wants to return. He was given clearance" to turn around.Ethiopian and American investigators will probe the crash, said GebreMariam. A statement says Abiodun Oluremi Bashua was a retired career envoy who served in various capacities in Iran, Austria and Ivory Coast.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Sunday that national delegates who might have been heading to UN meetings, including the UN Environment Program's assembly, wouldn't be included in the count. Also among the Italian dead was Sebastiano Tusa, a noted underwater archaeologist and the Sicilian regional assessor at the Culture Ministry. RAI state television said he was heading to Malindi, Kenya to participate in a UNESCO conference on safeguarding underwater cultural heritage in east Africa, which opens Monday.
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