Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
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ethiopian-airlines-flight-961-206-15127801
title:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board, including the three hijackers, died. This is t
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1996 Ethiopian Airlines flight accident in Comoros
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
date created:
2003-11-30T18:24:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:25:52Z
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