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Accident | |
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Date | 25 January 2010 |
Summary | Crashed shortly after take-off due to loss of control, pilot error, fatigue, and poor crew resource management |
Site | Mediterranean Sea, 3.5 km (2.2 mi; 1.9 nmi) off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon 33°45′28″N 35°25′49″E / 33.75778°N 35.43028°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 737-8AS |
Operator | Ethiopian Airlines |
IATA flight No. | ET409 |
ICAO flight No. | ETH409 |
Call sign | ETHIOPIAN 409 |
Registration | ET-ANB |
Flight origin | Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon |
Destination | Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Occupants | 90 |
Passengers | 82 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 90 |
Survivors | 0 |
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.[1][2] This was the first fatal crash for Ethiopian Airlines since the hijack of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 in 1996.[3][4][5]
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