Crew of ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight were experienced pilots, says CEO

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The brand new aircraft was delivered by Boeing to Ethiopia last year.

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebre-Mariam said that both the captain and the first officer of the ill-fated Flight ET302, which crashed near the town of Bishoftu 62km south-east of the capital Addis Ababa on Sunday morning killing all 157 people on board, were experienced pilots.

The Boeing 737 Max-plane, which underwent a routine maintenance check on February 4, was flying from Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport when it crashed.

 

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