According to the '' Aviation Safety Network '' records for '' Ethiopian Airlines '' , the airline has had 61 accidents and incidents since 1965 , plus six more for '' Ethiopian Air Lines '' , the airline 's former name . , these occurrences resulted in 494 deaths . On 10 March 2019 , Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 , a 4-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 , crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi , killing all 157 people , from more than 30 different nations . on board . Prior to the 2019 accident , a hijacking was the carrier 's deadliest accident , when an aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean due to fuel starvation in 1996 . The third-deadliest accident occurred in 2010 , when an aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after it departed Beirut – Rafic Hariri International Airport , killing all 90 people on board . The crash of a Boeing 737-200 in 1988 led to 35 fatalities and ranks as the fourth most deadly accident experienced by the company
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
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