Ethiopian Plane Crashes in Beirut Lightning Storm
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90 people feared dead after plane comes down in Mediterranean Sea.
Rescue missions are continuing to search for survivors of a horrific plane crash as an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft exploded into a fireball and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Lebanon earlier this morning.
The aircraft was just minutes into its flight from Beirut to Addis Ababa when air traffic control at Beirut Airport lost contact with Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409. Eyewitnesses reported a huge flash in the sky as the plane crashed into the sea.
As details emerge about the flight, there are discrepancies in reports as to exactly how many people were onboard the plane before it went down. The BBC has reported that 80 passengers and nine crew were aboard, whilst the Lebanese National News Agency estimated that there were 97 passengers and crew.
So far at least nine bodies have been recovered from the sea. Rescue teams have found no survivors and hopes are slim that any could have escaped the tragic crash.
Over half of the passengers onboard were from Lebanon, with 23 Ethiopians and passengers from France, Russia, Canada, Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Two British nationals were also onboard the flight.
The cause of the crash is as yet unknown, but authorities in Lebanon have ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack. The flight took off in extremely poor weather conditions with heavy run and thunder storms looming. It is believed that the aircraft might have been struck by lightning which caused the plane to catch fire.
The Lebanese military along with United Nations forces were working under extreme weather conditions to search for survivors.
May God bless their souls & may they all rest in peace.
They stay safe.
May God give great strength and courage to the families of the bereaved to bear this sudden tragic and irrepairable loss. I pray for the departed souls.
The one who wrote Ethiopian plane crash. May God give great strength and courage to the families of the bereaved to bear this sudden tragic and irrepairable loss. I pray for the departed souls.
I think that it’s very hard to bear this tragic event that happened to the Ethiopian, Lebanese, British, etc, people. I pray for their families to give them patience and trust in God. May they all rest in peace.
May they all rest in peace and may God give the strength to families that lost in the tragic and sudden plane crush.
May God please help to give them strength and courage for the families of all the victims. Please Lord, bless them.
God help them.
OMG, why would they let it take off?
Please God give strength for victims’ families.
Today we express our sympathies to the families of the victims and may God bless their souls!
I feel sorry for them.
All things are done by him.
God, please stop killing the innocent. Families, please be strong. God bless all of you.
May God help all the people and give strength to the victims’ families.