On March 10, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, en route from Addis Ababa to Kenya’s Nairobi, crashed near the Ethiopian town of Bishoftu. Contact with the aircraft was lost six minutes after takeoff, the airline said. All 157 passengers and crewmembers on board the plane died. Much of the world, including the entire European Union, has grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace, leaving the United States as one of the few remaining operators of the plane involved in two deadly accidents in just five months.
Mourning the Ethiopia air crash victims
On March 10, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 157 people on board
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A family member puts a photo on flowers at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crashed shortly after takeoff on March 10 killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene Relatives of the people who died on board Ethiopian Airlines flight 302
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene A family member holds a framed photo of loved one at the scene where the plane crash near Bishoftu in Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene According to preliminary data, nineteen employees of the United Nations were killed in the plane crash in Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene Contact with the aircraft was lost six minutes after takeoff, the airline said
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene The black box from the Boeing jet that crashed will be sent overseas for analysis but no country has been chosen yet, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene Wreaths and floral installations stand next to piles of wreckage at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene Much of the world, including the entire European Union, has grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace, leaving the United States as one of the few remaining operators of the plane involved in two deadly accidents in just five months
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayen Family members and friends hug at the scene of the plane crash in Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene Workers walk past flowers laid at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia
© AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene