Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 157 people on board and leading to the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.

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instanceOf aviation accident
commercial passenger flight
aircraftFamily Boeing 737 MAX
aircraftFirstFlightYear 2018
aircraftManufacturer Boeing
aircraftRegistration ET-AVJ
aircraftSerialNumber 62450
aircraftType Boeing 737 MAX 8
airline Ethiopian Airlines
assistingInvestigationAuthority Federal Aviation Administration
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
callsign ETHIOPIAN 302
linked to: ETHIOPIAN
causeRelatedTo MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System)
aircraft design issues
erroneous angle-of-attack sensor data
inadequate pilot training on MCAS
countryOfOperator Ethiopia
crashLocationCountry Ethiopia
crashLocationNear Bishoftu
crashLocationRegion Oromia Region
date 2019-03-10
destinationAirport Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
destinationCity Nairobi
destinationCountry Kenya
fatalities 157
flightNumber ET302
groundFatalities 0
IATAFlightNumber ET302
ICAOFlightNumber ETH302
investigatingAuthority Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau
ledTo changes in pilot training requirements for 737 MAX
multiple investigations into Boeing 737 MAX certification
regulatory scrutiny of Boeing and the FAA
revisions to MCAS software
worldwide grounding of Boeing 737 MAX fleet
month March
notableFor being one of the deadliest aviation accidents involving a Boeing 737 MAX
triggering global reevaluation of aircraft certification processes
numberOfCrew 8
numberOfPassengers 149
originAirport Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
originCity Addis Ababa
originCountry Ethiopia
phaseOfFlightAtAccident initial climb
precededBy Lion Air Flight 610 crash
relatedTo Boeing 737 MAX groundings
linked to: Boeing 737 MAX
routeType international
serviceType scheduled passenger flight
survivors 0
timeAfterTakeoffWhenCrashed approximately 6 minutes
totalOccupants 157
year 2019

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Boeing 737 MAX 8 notableAccident Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
MCAS contributedToAccident Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
Boeing 737 MAX crash Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System involvedIn Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash
linked to: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302