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Kenya sends officials to Ethiopia to assist following Sunday's plane crash via SABCNewsOnline

There were passengers from at least 35 nationalities aboard the ill-fated flight. Kenya is the worst affected with at least 32 of its citizens known to have perished in the crash.

Ethiopian airlines say it had cleared the pilot of ET-302 to turn back to the airport, after he requested to return to Bole International Airport following technical difficulties. The plane crashed six minutes after take-off, reports Kimani. Flight ET-302 left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at eight-38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later. It crashed near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

 

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