11 Mar 2019

157 dead in Ethiopian plane crash

From Morning Report, 7:14 am on 11 March 2019

An Ethiopian Airlines flight has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa killing everyone on board. The Boeing 737 Max-8 was travelling to Kenya and their were 157 people on board. 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, eight Americans and seven British nationals were among the passengers. The model of plane was a Boeing 737 Max-8, the same model involved in the Indonesian Lion crash in October last year. The BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead speaks to Susie Ferguson.