CALGARY—An Edmonton woman and her 5-year-old daughter, as well as a Calgary accountant, are among 157 people, including 18 Canadians, who died Sunday morning after their Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed just outside of Addis Ababa. Rescue and recovery personnel use an earth mover to recover debris from a crater where Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in a wheat field just outside the town of Bishoftu, 62 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa on Sunday. ( Jemal Countess / Getty Images ) People watch workers at the crash site of a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday. Dr. Pius Adesanmi was aboard the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said. Earlier on Twitter, Oliphant tweeted he had landed safely in Addis Ababa.
Source: thestar March 10, 2019 21:42 UTC