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Africa Horn
Ethiopian Boeing jet 'had smoke pouring from the rear' before 'crashing with a loud boom as luggage and clothes came burning down'
2019-03-12
[MAIL] The doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet 'had smoke pouring from the rear' before coming down 'with a loud boom' in a crash which killed 157 people, a witness has said.
This model of jet typically makes more than 8,500 flights a week. These are the airlines that use it (See NYT article at #3 below).
Gebeyehu Fikadu saidhe saw flight ET302 'swerving and dipping' while 'luggage and clothes came burning down' when it crashed within minutes of take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning.

All 149 passengers and eight crew members on board the Nairobi-bound plane died in the disaster - the second involving a 737 MAX 8 in just five months.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Lithium batteries in checked baggage?
Posted by: Beau   2019-03-12 10:58  

#7  Better a bomb than S2A.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-12 10:18  

#6  Sounds like a bomb

Occam's razor
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-03-12 09:15  

#5  Sounds like a bomb
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-03-12 08:57  

#4  Southwest is a big user
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-12 08:38  

#3  NYT - Which Airlines Fly the Boeing 737 Max 8.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-12 07:35  

#2  CNBS interviews American 777 captain and contributing editor at Flying Magazine.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-12 07:26  

#1  Burning luggage and clothes from the cargo hold? Something else may have been going on here. It is North Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-12 03:04  

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