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 BEIRUT — An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to return to Lebanon after takeoff early on Thursday when crew noticed a door was rattling, a Beirut airport official said. "The door had not been closed properly and some five minutes after takeoff, the pilot was able to return and land in Beirut safely and without having to signal an emergency," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The Boeing 737-800 -- the same model as an Ethiopian Airlines jet which crashed off the Lebanese coast in January killing all 90 on board -- took off at around 4:30 am (0130 GMT) bound for Addis Ababa. "The flight was delayed another six hours before it was cleared for takeoff," the official said. ...Read More
 Ethiopian Airlines officials
are closely following a report that a captured terrorism suspect has
told of a bomb aboard a plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon in
January. Investigators have not determined the cause more than two
months after the crash. A report on a U.S. Internet Web site says
British intelligence agents have reopened their investigation into the
mysterious crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet January 25. The Boeing 737
plunged into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff from Beirut
airport, killing all 90 people aboard. News reports initially
quoted witnesses as saying the plane had broken up in the air and fallen
into the sea in a ball of flames. But Lebanese officials immediately
ruled out terrorism, and suggested pilot error was to blame.
Note: Thank God! It is not the pilot and
everybody was sure that reports from some Lebanese officials was a fake,
Now it is time for the Truth We Ethiopians need the Truth, Here below
is what we find in the recent investigation status of the Ethiopian Jet.
Investigators checking link to failed Christmas Day attack LONDON – British intelligence agents have
reopened their investigation into the mysterious crash of an Ethiopian
Airlines passenger jet last February after a terror suspect taken into
custody in Saudi Arabia confessed it was bombed, according to a report
from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The information came after the
mass arrest of more than 100 al-Qaida terror suspects in the Middle
East. The Boeing 737-8 plunged into the Mediterranean shortly
after takeoff from Lebanon, killing all 92 passengers on board.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri blamed pilot error. .... Read more Here
 An attorney in Seattle sees Lebanese
government statements about an incomplete investigation of the crash of
Ethiopia Airlines Flight 409 in January as inappropriate. “Until
the final findings of the probe are known, it seems gross speculation
for anyone to try to determine what may or may not have happened and to
say what the cause of the crash may be,” said Lembhard Howell to VOA. Howell,
whose legal practice includes representing clients in the 1990s
following the crash of an Indian Airlines flight, also said that any
preparations to file a legal suit as a result of the Ethiopian Airlines
crash in January are irresponsible.A Chicago law firm is representing
relatives of 30 passengers from Lebanon who died in the Jan. 25 crash.
Addis Ababa, February 24, 2010 (Addis Ababa) - Ethiopia warns the Lebanese government for trying to solicit political gains out of the crash investigation process of the Ethiopian airliner that occurred around Beirut, Lebanon. The nation also called upon the President and Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to intervene in the row.Briefing local journalists on the agenda, Transport and Communications Minister, Driba Kuma said on Wednesday the Lebanese government continued providing incorrect and misleading information to media despite the cause of the accident remains undetermined. “Ethiopia has repeatedly reminded the government of that country to refrain from releasing unfounded information to the media before the conclusion of the on-going investigation process,” he said, “But the government has continued leaking wrong and confusing information to media about the crash of ET-409”.
All 90 bodies have now been recovered from the Ethiopian airlines crash off Lebanon last month.
The state carrier's Boeing 737-800 crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Beirut airport en route to Addis Ababa on January 25.
The passengers have now also all been identified and an airline spokesman said arrangements are now being made to repatriate their remains.
An intial investigation blamed bad weather for the crash, however officials say its still too early to determine exactly what cause the plane to crash.
According to a press release Ethiopian sent to WIC, arrangement is being made to repatriate bodies of the Ethiopian and other nationals to their respective countries.
The Ethiopian Airlines on Friday dismissed as 'speculative', reports
that pilot error was behind the Beirut crash that killed 90 people in
January, saying investigations were likely to take long to reach
conclusions into the possible reasons behind the crash.
Ethiopian
Airlines Chief Executive, Girma Wake, said the report of pilot error
was 'speculative, speculative and speculative,' adding that the
investigations were still continuing.
Reacting to the latest
reports that hinted pilot error was behind the crash of the Ethiopian
Airlines Boeing 737 jetliner, taking off from the Rafik Hariri Airport
in Beirut, Wake said it was still too early to talk about human error as
the sole cause of the accident.
'The investigations would have
to come up with the report. We have to wait for the final report,' Wake
told PANA Friday.
Lebanese authorities said a preliminary
investigation report on the cause of the flight ET 409 crash would be
released over the next few days.
Ethiopian Airlines says first Bombardier Q400 to arrive in March Source:
ENA  Ethiopian
Airlines announced on Thursday that the first Bombardier Q400 aircraft
among its order for Canadian plane maker Bombardier Inc. will arrive on
March 22, 2011, the state-run Ethiopian News Agency reported. Domestic
Sales, Marketing and Operations Director of Ethiopian Abebe Angessa
said Ethiopia had signed a purchase of agreement with the Canadian
company to buy eight Bombardier Q400 aircrafts at a cost of 192 million
USD. The director said the remaining seven aircraft will arrive
by September 2011. He said each aircraft worth 24 million USD can
carry 72 passengers. The director said Fokker aircraft which have been
serving the last 15 years would be replaced by Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
 BEIRUT — The Lebanese military says
naval commandos have recovered the cockpit voice recorder belonging to
the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed last month into the
Mediterranean. The Boeing 737 crashed on Jan. 25, just minutes
after takeoff from Beirut during a thunderstorm. All 90 people on board
died. The plane's data flight recorder was retrieved among the
plane's wreckage last week and was flown to France for analysis. Part
of the cockpit voice recorder was retrieved in the same area last
Wednesday, but officials said it was missing its memory voice recorder. An
army statement said that recorder was retrieved Tuesday.
 Only three bodies
among the eight flight crews, one of whom has not so far been named,
who were aboard ET409 which crashed immediately after taking off on its
fatal flight from Beirut to Addis Abeba were delivered Sunday, February
14, 2010, at the Bole International Airport after identification was
carried out through DNA testing and clearance granted by Lebanese
authorities. An Ethiopian delegation of 14 members, including medical,
technical and engineering professionals as well as eight people from
Blake Emergency Services of London were involved in the identification.
However, the coffins for the bodies of Gelila Gedion, lead cabin crew,
Nesanet Yifru, cabin crew (cc) and Seble Gebretsadik, cc, were joined by
three empty coffins for the unfound bodies of two other cabin crews,
Helen Addise and Seblewnegel Seyoum, lead CC, and co-pilot Alula Tamrat,
whose families had agreed for a remembrance to be held for them along
with three of their friends. Also remembered were nine passengers, for
whom there was only one silver coffin.
BEIRUT — Divers retrieved on Wednesday the cockpit voice recorder
from an Ethiopian jet that crashed off the Lebanese coast last month as
officials warned against speculation about the cause of the disaster
that killed 90 people. "We have recovered the second black box
from the Ethiopian plane and it will be handed over to investigators in
France," Aridi told AFP. He added, however, that divers were still trying to recover a key part of the box that was missing. "We
handed the box over to the investigation committee and were told it was
missing a crucial piece," he said. "Our divers are continuing attempts
to find and recover that piece." The Lebanese navy retrieved the
first black box, the flight data recorder, on Sunday and sent it to the
Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA), France's accident investigation
agency.
 BEIRUT
(Reuters) - Pilot error caused the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane
off the coast of Lebanon last month which killed all 90 people on
board, a source familiar with the investigation into the accident said
Tuesday. "The investigation team has reached an early conclusion
that it was pilot error, based on the information from the black box,"
the source told Reuters.
NDJAMENA — An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet which made an
emergency landing in Chad due to a radar problem took off again Friday,
but 120 of its 150 passengers refused to board, airport authorities
said.
The plane, a Boeing 737 en route from Dakar in Senegal to
Addis Ababa via Bamako in Mali, "left this morning at 5:00 am (0400
GMT)," said an airport official, as well as airport police. The
incident comes days after another Ethiopian Airlines 737 with 90 people
on board crashed into the Mediterranean minutes after takeoff from
Beirut during a raging thunderstorm on Monday. There were no survivors.
Captain Habtamu Benti Negasa
Captain Habtamu Benti Negasa
First Officer Alula Tamerat (Co-Pilot)
First Officer Alula Tamerat (Co-Pilot)
Flight Attendant - Seble Gebretsadik
Flight Attendant - Seble Gebretsadik
Flight Attendant Netsanet Yifru
Flight Attendant Netsanet Yifru
Flight Attendant Gelila Gedion
Flight Attendant Gelila Gedion
Flight Lead Attendant Seblewengel Seyoum
Flight Lead Attendant Seblewengel Seyoum
Flight Attendant Helen Addissie
Flight Attendant Helen Addissie
First Officer Alula Tamerat - Photo 2 (Co-Pilot)
Source: ER
I’ve
been following up the investigation related to the plane crash and i
don’t understand why a terrorist plot was not considered by the
Lebanese authorities. In fact, they ruled it out since the first
minute, starting with the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.
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