On Monday, January 25, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed en route from Beirut to Addis Ababa. According to reports 54 Lebanese, 22 Ethiopians, one Iraqi, one French woman (the wife of France’s ambassador to Lebanon), one Syrian and seven crew members (as well as two British-Lebanese, one Canadian-Lebanese, and one Russian-Lebanese dual nationals) were on board the flight.
CNN has recently reported that airtraffic controllers had instructed the plane to change course shortly before it crashed some 3.5 kilometers west of the town of Naameh which lies about 15 kilometers south of Beirut. For the CNN story, which reporters are constantly updating, please click here.
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