Ethiopian Airlines An Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard crashed just six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa Sunday. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, took off at 08:38am (05:38 GMT) and lost contact with air traffic controllers six minutes later. It crashed near Bishoftu, southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November. None of the ...