Ethiopian Boeing jet 'had smoke pouring from the rear' before 'crashing with a loud boom as luggage and clothes came burning down'
[MAIL] The doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet 'had smoke pouring from the rear' before coming down 'with a loud boom' in a crash which killed 157 people, a witness has said.
This model of jet typically makes more than 8,500 flights a week. These are the airlines that use it (See NYT article at #3 below).
Gebeyehu Fikadu saidhe saw flight ET302 'swerving and dipping' while 'luggage and clothes came burning down' when it crashed within minutes of take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning.
All 149 passengers and eight crew members on board the Nairobi-bound plane died in the disaster - the second involving a 737 MAX 8 in just five months.
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Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-12 |