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Accident; Date: 10 March 2019 (): Summary: Loss of control in flight: Site: Bishoftu, near Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: Boeing 737 MAX 8: Operator: Ethiopian Airlines: IATA flight No.: ET302: ICAO flight No.: ETH302: Call sign: ETHIOPIAN 302: Registration: ET-AVJ: Flight origin: Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa ...
Ethiopian Airlines, the national airline of Ethiopia, [1] has a good safety record. [2] [3] [4] As of March 2019, the Aviation Safety Network records 64 accidents/incidents for Ethiopian Airlines that total 459 fatalities since 1965, [5] plus six accidents for Ethiopian Air Lines, the airline's former name. [6]
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the Boeing 737-8 MAX plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November.
Three months after the pilot delivered the warning, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed and killed all 157 people on board.
Ethiopian Airlines' ex-chief engineer filed a whistleblower complaint to the regulators about alleged corruption in Ethiopian Airlines. He is also seeking asylum in the U.S. He said that, a day after the Flight 302 crash, the carrier altered maintenance records of a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
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Terminal 1 serves domestic and regional flights for Ethiopian Airlines, EgyptAir, Qatar Airways, Sudan Airways, and Yemenia. Terminal 2 serves international flights and the rest of the airlines that serve the airport. [24] [25] In 2012, Ethiopian Airlines opened the first phase of its Cloud Nine Business Class Lounge at Bole International Airport.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...