The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight was unable to practice on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said.
Milka Yimam sauntered to the lectern at Ethiopia Orthodox Church in Nairobi. Dressed in black clothes and her voice trembling, she took the microphone struggling to talk as tears streamed down her face.
The pilot of the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed killing all 157 on board begged air traffic control to land, minutes before the tragedy.
The United States grounded Boeing Co’s money-spinning 737 MAX aircraft on Wednesday over safety fears after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people, leaving the world’s largest plane maker facing its worst crisis in years.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam on Tuesday spoke about the crash that claimed 157 lives and revealed what the pilot stated minutes before the crash.
Kenyan Georgetown Law student among 8 Americans killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash: A Georgetown student has been identified as one of the eight Americans victims in the deadly Ethiopian Airlines flight, school officials said Sunday evening.
As the midday sun burned, Gloria Wangari held on to her father Peter Kimani as they sat patiently waiting for her mother, whom she had not seen for one year.
Ethiopian Airlines is currently giving more details of the passengers who were on board ET 302 that crashed on Sunday shortly after taking off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.