Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: An Ethiopian Airlines plane bound for Kenya has crashed with 149 passengers and eight crew members on board on Sunday.
An Ethiopian Airlines spokesman confirmed to media that the Boeing 737 plane had crashed at 8:44am on Sunday.
The Ethiopian prime minister’s office said the plane had crashed on a regularly scheduled flight to Nairobi after taking off from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
It is not yet clear where the crash occurred.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted his “deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones”.