The passengers and crew included people from 33 nationalities. It is not immediately clear if there were South Africans among them.

The ill-fated Boeing 737 Max arrived in Addis Ababa this morning from Johannesburg.

It is the same model as the Lion Air flight that crashed minutes after take off at Jakarta last October killing all 189 people aboard.

5 000 of this aircraft, known as the workhorse of the skies,  are on order around the world.

The crashed plan was delivered to Ethiopian Airlines, the biggest carrier in Sub Saharan Africa, last November.

Many of the passengers who embarked at Bole Airport were headed for a United Nations  conference opening in Nairobi tomorrow.

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