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Ethiopian B737-800 down in Mediterranean sea
Topic Started: Jan 24 2010, 10:29 PM (487 Views)
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Crashed shortly after takeoff from Beirut. 92 people aboard. Witnesses say it was on fire when it hit the water...

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(CNN) -- An Ethiopian airliner with 92 people on board disappeared from radar and is believed to have crashed shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

The Boeing aircraft was en route to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when it disappeared from radar 30 minutes after takeoff from Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, NNA reported. The plane is believed to have been over water at the time of its disappearance, the news agency said.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8478060.stm

Ethiopian Airlines jet 'crashes into sea off Beirut'

An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after taking off from Beirut airport in Lebanon.

Lebanese aviation sources said the plane was heading for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and had 85 passengers on board.

Reuters news agency quotes airport sources as saying that about 50 of the passengers were Lebanese nationals.

The majority of the remaining passengers were Ethiopian, they add.

Thousands of Ethiopians are employed as domestic helpers in Lebanon.

The plane, believed to be a Boeing 737, reportedly disappeared from radar screens some five minutes after take-off in stormy weather.

The plane is said to have left Beirut shortly after its scheduled departure time of 0310 local time.

Residents who live near the coast are reported to have witnessed a plane on fire crashing into the sea.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8478060.stm

Wreckage sighted off Lebanon coast.

RIP...

They have been a terrorist target before...how could we forget the 767 cartwheeling into the sea...and the beachgoers trying to rescue people... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961



I hope this wasn't another terrorist incident.

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An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane with 92 people on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut airport.

Eyewitnesses say they saw a ball of fire in the sky before the jet crashed into the sea.

Wreckage from the plane has been seen off the Lebanese coast.

Most of the those on board Flight ET409, which was was bound for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were Lebanese and Ethiopian nationals.

The plane, a Boeing 737, carried 83 passengers and nine crew.

It disappeared from radar screens some five minutes after take-off in stormy weather at about 0200 local time.

The BBC's Natalia Antelava, in Beirut, reports that the Lebanese transport minister and other officials say a rescue operation is now under way, but it is unclear if there are any survivors.

Ethiopia and Lebanon share close business ties, and thousands of Ethiopians are employed as domestic helpers in Lebanon.

Ethiopian Airlines operates a regular flight between Addis Ababa from Beirut.


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Al Arabiya reporting that the Lebanese army has found 7 survivors...

Amazing if true...
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The wife of the French Ambassador to Beirut was apparently aboard...

Reports of 9 survivors now...
Edited by LTC8K6, Jan 25 2010, 12:51 AM.
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Looks like reports of survivors were premature...

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Lebanese soldiers gather debris from the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea on the shore near Beirut airport, Lebanon on Monday.

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A Lebanese commando pulls a body from the water into a helicopter above the area where an Ethiopian plane crashed as a Lebanese army vessel (R) searches for survivors at Khaldeh, south of Beirut, January 25, 2010. The plane with 90 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Girma Wake said he had no word of any survivors from the crash.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCe-_aVAYS4

CCTV shows an apparent engine malfunction on takeoff. You have to look closely in the upper right. It's barely on screen. Contact was lost at ~9K feet though, so you'd have to wonder how they got that far after an engine problem. They should have mentioned the engine problem seen in the video, they had plenty of time. Will have to wait for the ATC recordings.
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Well, they have found it...

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06fh90UgGu5n7/1000x.jpg
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Water is not that soft when you hit it after falling thousands of feet!

The pic's look like the results we see in a search for a sunken treasure, but just the opposite here.
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Ethiopian Airline crash off Beirut was an act of Al-Qaeda terror

http://www.debka.com/article/8599/
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There's really zero evidence of that, though.
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