Shocking revelations from the Ethiopian air crash site have revealed that over 5 thousand body parts have so far been recovered from the crash site.
The airline’s spokesman had said on Wednesday that no bodies could be recovered from the site where Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed, because only fragmented remains survived the impact.
Sunday’s still unexplained crash, just after take-off from Addis Ababa, killed all 157 people on board.The plane took off at 8:38 a.m. (0538 GMT) on March 10 and lost contact with the control tower at 8:44 a.m.
It crashed about 50km (30 miles) southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.The plane’s body shattered into many pieces and was severely burnt, a Reuters reporter at the scene of the crash said.
Clothing and personal effects were scattered widely over the field where the plane came down.“It tried to climb but it failed and went down nose first,” Tamirat Abera, 25, said. “There was fire and white smoke.”
The cause of the crash is still unknown, but investigators found the jet’s black box recorders on March 11. Under international rules, responsibility for leading the investigation lies with Ethiopia, but the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will also participate because the plane was designed and built in the United States.
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