‘No survivors’ as Ethiopian Airlines plane crashes near Addis Ababa

Written by technofiend1

According to State run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, all 157 people on board Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302 have been killed.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 was carrying 149 passengers and eight crew, the flight crashed six minutes after taking off from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement they “deeply regrets the fatal accident.”

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the airline added, “The group CEO who is at the accident scene right now regrets to confirm that there are no survivors.

“He expresses his profound sympathy and condolences to the families and loved ones of passengers and crew who lost their lives in this tragic accident.”

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Abiy Ahmed the prime minister of Ethiopia said on Twitter: “The office of the PM, on behalf of government and people of Ethiopia, would like to express it’s deepest condolences to the families that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning.”

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Konstantin was born in Moscow's Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh) district on 23 February 1961 the second son of a School master. Educated at Kazan National Research Technical University Казанский национальный исследовательский технический университет имени А. Н. Туполева he graduated in Economics in 1982. Recruited to the Soviet 40th Army serving as a Сержант in Aghanistan,later transferring to 1008th Flak Artillery Regiment, before being struck in the shoulder by a stray shell fragment. Konstantin invalided out of the Army . Starting up as Soviet blogger 'Maaxmann', later becoming a guard for a Moscow ballet company and it was there accompanying them in the West, that he had his first taste of the 'High Life'. Failing to return to Russia he resided first in Reutlingen, where he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...later he moved to London to write for the Telegraph,where he now resides with his wife and 2 children.

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