Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
	ET-ANB, the aircraft involved in the crash, seen 2 months before the accident
Accident
Date	25 January 2010
Summary	Crashed shortly after take-off due to loss of control, pilot error, fatigue, and poor crew resource management
Site	Mediterranean Sea, 3.5 km (2.2 mi; 1.9 nmi) off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon ; 33°45′28″N 35°25′49″E / 33.75778°N 35.43028°E
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-8AS
Operator	Ethiopian Airlines
IATA flight No.	ET409
ICAO flight No.	ETH409
Call sign	ETHIOPIAN 409
Registration	ET-ANB
Flight origin	Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon
Destination	Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Occupants	90
Passengers	82
Crew	8
Fatalities	90
Survivors	0

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.^[1]^[2] This was the first fatal crash for Ethiopian Airlines since the hijack of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 in 1996.^[3]^[4]^[5]

^ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 25 August 2011.
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