BISHOFTU — 2019 · Major Tragedy
The Crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
On 10 March 2019 an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed near the town of Bishoftu about six minutes after take-off, killing all 157 people on board, passengers from more than 30 countries. Coming only five months after the October 2018 Lion Air crash, it led to the worldwide grounding of the 737 MAX fleet for a prolonged period. Ethiopia's final report, published in December 2022, concluded that the MCAS flight control system, triggered by data from a single faulty sensor, had pushed the aircraft into an unrecoverable dive. US and French accident investigators published separate comments on the report.
- Date
- 2019
- Place
- Oromia, Ethiopia, Bishoftu, ET
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- 8.8800, 39.2500 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 10 March 2019ET302 crashed near Bishoftu six minutes after take-off; 157 people died.
- March 2019The 737 MAX fleet was grounded worldwide.
- December 2022Ethiopia published its final report.
- January 2023The NTSB published additional comments on the report.
Sources
- NTSB — Additional comments on Ethiopia's final report on 737 MAX 8 accident ntsb.gov ↗
- Flightradar24 — Ethiopian ET302 final report released flightradar24.com ↗
- Wikipedia — Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 en.wikipedia.org ↗
- NTSB
- Flightradar24
- Wikipedia
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