General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on March 12 sent a message of sympathies to Ethiopian President Sahle Work Zewde over the recent crush of an Ethiopian plane.
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| People walk past a part of the wreckage at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 10. (Photo: Reuters) |
A spokesperson of Ethiopian Airlines said Flight ET 302 crashed near Bishoftu town, 62 km southeast of the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa, with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, confirming that the plane was a Boeing 737-800 Max.
The plane left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 am (local time) before losing contact with the control tower just six minutes later.
