![]() ![]() Accident įlight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The first officer, Ahmed Nur Mohammod Nur, 25, was a recent graduate from the airline's academy with 361 flight hours logged, including 207 hours on the Boeing 737. At the time of the accident, he was the youngest captain at the airline. He had been a Boeing 737-800 captain since November 2017, and Boeing 737 MAX since July 2018. The captain of the plane was Yared Getachew, 29, who had been flying with the airline for almost nine years and had logged a total of 8,122 flight hours, including 4,120 hours on the Boeing 737. It had flown from Johannesburg, South Africa as ET858 the night prior. The aircraft was manufactured in October 2018 and delivered on 15 November 2018, making it around four months old at the time of the accident. The aircraft was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, registered ET-AVJ with a manufacturer's serial number of 62450, (construction number 7243), powered by two CFM International LEAP-1B engines. Both crashes prompted a two-year worldwide long term grounding of the jet and an investigation into how the aircraft was approved for passenger service. This was the second MAX 8 accident in less than five months after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. ![]() It is also the deadliest aircraft accident to occur in Ethiopia, surpassing the crash of an Ethiopian Air Force Antonov An-26 in 1982, which killed 73. On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people aboard.įlight 302 is Ethiopian Airlines's deadliest accident to date, surpassing the fatal hijacking of Flight 961 resulting in a crash near the Comoros in 1996. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya.
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