Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest aviation group, flew its Boeing 737 MAX jet for the first time on Tuesday after a tragic crash in 2019. “Ethiopian Airlines has returned its Boeing 737 MAX back to the skies today with the airline’s board chairman and executives, Boeing …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Ethiopia’s flag carrier Ethiopian Airlines has started operating flights with fully vaccinated crew against the COVID-19 virus, it said in a statement issued late Wednesday. Operating flights with fully vaccinated crew is a vital move to keep travelers and its crew safe in light of …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | In early March, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told an aviation conference in Addis Ababa the coronavirus pandemic was “a temporary problem” — comparable to a natural disaster or a spike in oil prices. Several weeks later Africa’s largest carrier is locked in what Tewolde …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | A US politician who blamed pilot error for contributing to the deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max flown by Ethiopian Airlines was “seriously misinformed”, the carrier’s boss has said. Republican Sam Graves told a House of Representatives hearing last month that “facts” in investigations …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Ethiopia said Wednesday it would send the black boxes from last weekend’s deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash to Europe for analysis as urgency mounted for answers amid safety concerns for the Boeing 737 MAX 8. The second deadly crash involving the plane type in less than …
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Tulu Fara , Ethiopia | AFP | Airlines in Ethiopia, China and Indonesia grounded Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets Monday as investigators recovered the black boxes from a brand-new passenger jet that crashed outside Addis Ababa a day earlier, killing all 157 people on board. The Nairobi-bound plane — the same …
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