An airplane crashed in Ethiopia with 157 people on board: no survivors

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed on Sunday morning while it was connecting Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 pbadengers and eight crew members.

"We confirm that our flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi has suffered an accident today," said Ethiopian Airlines in a statement. "We believe that there are 149 pbadengers and eight crew members on board, but we confirm the details regarding the pbadengers who took the flight," they added.

A spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines confirmed that there are no survivors among the victims, out of 33 nationalities, according to Ethiopian television EBC.

The plane took off from Addis Ababa International Airport at 8:38 am (Paris time) and lost contact six minutes later. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed in a tweet his "condolences" to the families of the victims of the accident.

Sunday 's accident came after the promise of Prime Minister Ahmed to open the airline and other sectors to foreign investment as part of a major transformation of the economy. Ethiopian, controlled by the government.

antecedents

It is about second loss of the Boeing 737 MAX in less than five months, according to the badyst of BBC News, Alex Macheras, after the incident last October of a Lion Air plane in Indonesia, with 189 people on board.

The last fatal accident of an Ethiopian Airlines transport plane dates back to 2010, when one of its aircraft crashed a few minutes after taking off from Beirut, killing the 90 people in edge.

News in progress being updated.