Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
	ET-AIZ, The aircraft involved in the accident is seen here at Frankfurt am Main Airport in 1993
Hijacking
Date	23 November 1996
Summary	Fuel exhaustion due to hijacking, water landing
Site	Grande Comore, Comoros
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 767-260ER
Operator	Ethiopian Airlines
Registration	ET-AIZ
Flight origin	Bole International Airport; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1st stopover	Jomo Kenyatta Int'l Airport; Nairobi, Kenya
2nd stopover	Maya-Maya Airport; Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Last stopover	Murtala Mohammed Int'l Airport; Lagos, Nigeria
Destination	Port Bouet Airport; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Passengers	163 (including 3 hijackers)
Crew	12
Fatalities	125 (including 3 hijackers)
Injuries	46
Survivors	50

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked on 23 November 1996,^[1]en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on an Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan service,^[2] by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia.^[3] The plane crash-landedin the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board died, along with the hijackers.^[3] The official accident report stated that four of the survivors were uninjured.

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