Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport 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. It is Ethiopian Airlines' deadliest accident to date, surpassing the fatal hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 resulting in a crash near the Comoros in 1996 that killed 125. 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 crash was caused by a fault in the plane's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a flight stabilizing system developed by Boeing for the MAX 8. The system had been designed to rely on a single sensor to detect the aircraft's angle of attack. Due to...

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