On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. Investigators have started their search into what had caused the deadly incident. On Saturday, a plane carrying went down in Colombia, killing at least 12. On Friday, a small plane plunged into a Florida lake, leaving five dead.
In the United States, there were two separate, non-fatal incidents on Saturday, including dozens of people injured when their plane hit turbulence as it approached New York’s JFK airport, and an emergency landing in Newark, New Jersey.
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An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa. Flight ET302, which was heading from the Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi, Kenya, lost contact at 8:44 a.m. local time — six minutes after taking off.
The plane was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, which had been delivered to the airline in November.
“As it is a fresh incident, we have not been able to determine the cause. As I said, it is a brand new airplane with no technical remarks, flown by a senior pilot and there is no cause that we can attribute at this time,” said Tewolde GebreMariam, Ethiopian Airlines CEO .
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