An Ethiopian Airline flight carrying 157 people – 149 passengers and 8 crew members – to the Kenyan capital Nairobi has crashed.
The Boeing 737 plane took off from Addis Ababa at 8:38 AM local time, and crashed shortly after at 8:44 AM.
The office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed released a statement on Twitter saying:
The airline later released a statement on its Twitter confirming the crash. See the statement below: