Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
	An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, similar to the one involved in the accident
Accident
Date	25 January 2010
Summary	Crashed shortly after takeoff
Site	Mediterranean Sea, 3.5 km (1.9 nmi; 2.2 mi) off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon; 33°45′28″N35°25′49″E
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-8AS
Operator	Ethiopian Airlines
Registration	ET-ANB
Flight origin	Rafic Hariri International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon
Destination	Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Passengers	82
Crew	8
Fatalities	90 (all)

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeofffrom Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.^[1]^[2] This was the first fatal crash for Ethiopian Airlines since the hijack of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 in 1996.^[3]^[4]^[5]

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