Ethiopian Air Crash: Bodies and Flight Recorder Found
- 14 years ago
Lebanese navy commandos have recovered the flight recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month, killing all on board.
Search teams have found a data recorder and are still looking for the voice recorder. But officials say the top priority now for the search teams is to find the bodies of the 90 victims trapped inside the aircraft’s main body. Only two have been found.
Lebanese and international teams have managed to retrieve the plane's rear wings and the cockpit in the last 24 hours. The fuselage of the plane was also located.
The Boeing 737-800 plane was carrying mostly Lebanese and Ethiopian passengers. It crashed minutes after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather and plunged in a ball of fire into the sea. It was bound for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Search teams have found a data recorder and are still looking for the voice recorder. But officials say the top priority now for the search teams is to find the bodies of the 90 victims trapped inside the aircraft’s main body. Only two have been found.
Lebanese and international teams have managed to retrieve the plane's rear wings and the cockpit in the last 24 hours. The fuselage of the plane was also located.
The Boeing 737-800 plane was carrying mostly Lebanese and Ethiopian passengers. It crashed minutes after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather and plunged in a ball of fire into the sea. It was bound for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.