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Ethiopia crash: Britain bans Boeing 737 MAX jets from airspace

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2019

Britain has joined four other countries in banning Boeing 737 MAX planes from their airspace as a growing number of airlines around the world grounded the jets following a second deadly accident in just five months, AFP reports on Tuesday. All 157 people on board, a new Ethiopian Airlines 737

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Policeman kills colleague in gun game

Daily Dispatch March 11, 2019

A French policeman who shot and killed a fellow officer at police headquarters in Paris was fooling around with his service weapon when it went off, a police source told AFP on Monday. The accident took place on Sunday at the new headquarters of the criminal police in the northwest of the capital. The police […]

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Ethiopian plane crash: How two minutes lateness saved man from death

Daily Dispatch March 11, 2019

A Greek man has told how he was saved from the Ethiopian Airlines disaster because he was running just two minutes late – and demanded to be let on board. Antonis Mavropoulos would have been the 150th passenger on board the doomed jet – which crashed and killed all 157 on board, including seven Britons […]

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China orders local airlines to ground Boeing 737 MAX 8

Daily Dispatch March 11, 2019

China on Monday ordered domestic airlines to suspend commercial operation of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, citing the Ethiopian Airlines crash and another deadly accident of that same model in Indonesia. Noting the “similarities” between the two accidents, China’s Civil Aviation Administration said domestic airlines had until 6:00 pm local time (1000 GMT) to ground […]

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Ethiopian Airline crash: Black Box recovered

Daily Dispatch March 11, 2019

One of two black box recorders on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed just outside Addis Ababa Sunday, killing all 157 people on board has been recovered. According to AFP on its twitter account, “The black box voice recorder from Ethiopian Airlines aircraft which crashed yesterday has been recovered.”

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Ethiopian Airlines CEO gives nationalities of plane crash victims

Daily Dispatch March 10, 2019

Seven British, seven French, eight Italian, 18 Canadian nationals are among the 157 victims of an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Sunday. Also 32 Kenyan, nine Ethiopian, eight U.S. and eight Chinese nationals were also among the dead, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told journalists. The nationalities of the other passengers remained unknown. None of […]