Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Addis

Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in

Nairobi, Kenya. On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed six minutes
after takeoff near the town of Bishoftu, killing all 157 passengers and crew aboard. Flight
302 was the second fatal accident of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft this decade, after
Flight 409 in January 2010.[2] It is the deadliest aircraft accident in the airline's history,
surpassing the fatal hijacking of Flight 961 near Comoros in 1996.[3] It is also the
deadliest aircraft accident to occur in Ethiopia, surpassing the crash of an Ethiopian Air
Force Antonov An-26 in 1982, which killed 73.[4]
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 model first flew on 29 January 2016 and entered service in
2017, making it one of the newest aircraft in Boeing's commercial airliner offerings, and
the newest generation of Boeing 737.[5] As of January 2019, 350 aircraft of this model
have been produced, and one other has crashed, Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia in
October 2018.[6][3][7][8] Following the accident, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 model was
grounded in several countries and by several airlines.