Two Moroccan Officials Among 157 Killed in Ethiopian Airlines Crash

The 149 passengers and 8 crew members of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed shortly after takeoff did not survive. The plane was headed to Nairobi, Kenya, from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Two Moroccans were victims of this crash, namely Ahmed Chihab, an official of the Ministry of the Environment, and El Hassan Sayouti, a university professor at the University of Hassan II in Casablanca. The latter would be the father of two children. They would both be members of a United Nations delegation, according to the President of the Government, Saâdeddine El Othmani, quoted by Alyaoum24.

The plane had taken off at 8:38 local time (6:38 GMT) from Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport. Six minutes later, contact was lost. Then the plane crashed.

Note that this type of aircraft, the Boeing 737-800 MAX, is the same as the one of Lion Air that crashed 13 minutes after its departure from Jakarta, killing 189 people, in October last year.

In addition to the 2 deceased Moroccans, there were 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, 9 Ethiopians, 8 Italians, 8 Chinese, 8 Americans, 7 French, 7 British, 6 Egyptians, 5 Dutch, 4 Slovaks, 4 Indians, 3 Swedes, 3 Australians, 3 Russians, 2 Israelis, 2 Spaniards, 2 Poles, 1 Belgian, 1 Djiboutian, 1 Indonesian, 1 Irish, 1 Mozambican, 1 Norwegian, 1 Rwandan, 1 Saudi, 1 Sudanese, 1 Somali, 1 Serbian, 1 Togolese, 1 Ugandan, 1 Yemeni, 1 Nepalese, 1 Nigerian and 2 unidentified.