Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi crashes, deaths reported

[malaise]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/ethiopian-airlines-flight-nairobi-crashes-deaths-reported-190310082515738.html

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines said.

Ethiopia's prime minister offered condolences to victims' families.

"We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in an accident today," the airline said in a statement on Sunday.

"It is believed that there were 149 passengers and eight crew on board the flight but we are currently confirming the details of the passenger manifest for the flight," according to the statement.
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This is bad - too sad

[Princess Turandot]

1. Ach. MSN in S Africa is reporting no survivors per the Ethiopian State broadcasting company..

as are other local twitter accounts:

Link to tweet

Awful.

[malaise]

2. Too sad

Those take off crashes rarely have survivors

[malaise]

3. A brand new plane

CNN now saying it was the same type of aircraft that went down in Indonesia last year

[JI7]

4. do we know why the indonesia plane went down ?

[malaise]

5. Some questions here