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This plane crash takes us to the African country of Ethiopia, which is located next to the following countries: Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in February 2019.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport (IATA: ADD, ICAO: HAAB) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK) in Nairobi, Kenya. On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff. All 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board died.
ET 302 is Ethiopian Airlines' deadliest accident to date, surpassing the fatal hijacking of Flight 961 resulting in a crash near the Comoros in 1996. It is also the deadliest aircraft accident to occur in Ethiopia, surpassing the crash of an Ethiopian Air Force Antonov An-26 in 1982, which killed 73 people on board.
The accident was the second involving a MAX 8 in less than five months after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in the Java Sea. The crashes prompted a two-year worldwide long term grounding of the jet and an investigation into how the aircraft was approved for passenger service.
The aircraft was a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, with serial number 62450 and registered as ET-AVJ (Echo Tango- Alpha Victor Juliet). It was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 2018 and was delivered to Ethiopian Airlines on the 15th of November. It had logged 1,330.3 airframe hours in 382 takeoff and landing cycles. It was also powered by two CFM International LEAP-1B28B1G05 engines.
In command was Captain Yared Getachew, aged 29, who had been flying with the airline for almost nine years and had logged a total of 8,122 flight hours, including 4,120 hours on the Boeing 737. He had been a Boeing 737-800 captain since November 2017, and flying Boeing 737 MAX since July 2018. At the time of the accident, he was the youngest captain at the airline. The first officer, Ahmednur Mohammed, aged 25, was a recent graduate from the airline's academy with 361 flight hours logged, including 207 hours on the Boeing 737.
Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The aircraft took off from Addis Ababa at 08:38:00am local time (05:38:00am UTC) with 149 passengers and 8 crew on board.
Forty-four seconds after takeoff, as the main gear lifted off the runway, the angle of attack (AoA) sensor on the left side of the aircraft's nose sustained damage, possibly from a bird strike. This damage caused the sensor to send faulty readings, leading the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to falsely detect an imminent stall. In response, MCAS repeatedly commanded the horizontal stabilizer to push the aircraft's nose downward. However, since MCAS is inactive during takeoff configuration, it only began functioning once the flaps were retracted.
