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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