People from 33 nations were aboard the flight and hundreds from across the world have traveled to Ethiopia for the memorial
Clothing and personal effects from the wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 plane crash, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 11 2019. Picture: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERI
The accident killed all 157 people aboard. It was the second involving the 737 MAX plane in just five months and led to its worldwide grounding. Families from countries including Canada, the US, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Italy and France will attend the ceremony at the crash site, which is about a three-hour drive from the capital, Addis Ababa.The 737 MAX, Boeing’s best-selling plane, remains grounded. Boeing has lost billions of dollars in the wake of the Ethiopian crash and an October 2018 accident involving Indonesia’s Lion Air, which killed all 189 people aboard.
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