19 U.N. Workers Were Among the Victims in Ethiopian Airlines Plane Crash
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New York Times
- Posted On 11-03-2019, 11:34AM
The flight route from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to Nairobi, Kenya, is sometimes referred to as a “U.N. shuttle” because of how often United Nations staff members take it.
On Sunday, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Plummeted to the ground shortly after, killing more than 150 people, the plane had a particularly high concentration of United Nations employees: At least 19 staff members died in the crash, tne United Nations said in a statement.
The airline said the flight had passengers from at least 30 countries, some of whom were aid workers for other humanitarian organizations.
The dead included at least 32 Kenyans; 18 Canadians; nine each from Ethiopia and France; eight each from the United States, China and Italy; and seven from Britain, according to the airline, officials and news accounts. The identities of many of the victims, including the Americans, have not been released.
