N Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/n/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 10 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 N Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/n/ 32 32 Day of mourning in Ethiopia after Addis Ababa plane crash kills 157 https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/day-of-mourning-in-ethiopia-after-addis-ababa-plane-crash-kills-157/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/day-of-mourning-in-ethiopia-after-addis-ababa-plane-crash-kills-157/ A national day of mourning has been declared in Ethiopia after yesterday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane near Addis Ababa’s Bole airport killed all 157 people aboard. The Ethiopian Airlines plane is the second nearly new Boeing 737 Max to crash shortly after takeoff in less than five months. Families of the 189 victims […]

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]]> A national day of mourning has been declared in Ethiopia after yesterday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane near Addis Ababa’s Bole airport killed all 157 people aboard.

The Ethiopian Airlines plane is the second nearly new Boeing 737 Max to crash shortly after takeoff in less than five months.

Families of the 189 victims of the Lion Air crash at Jakarta airport blame Boeing and are suing the American plane maker.

The Boeing 737 Max crashed within minutes of taking off for Nairobi.

The cause is not known but the pilot reported problems before losing contact.

The victims come from more than 30 countries.

Many of them were heading for a United Nations conference opening in the Kenyan capital today.

The ill-fated plane, which was delivered last November,  had flown from Johannesburg earlier yesterday.

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