Status:
Date:	15 JUL 1960
Time:	09:40
Type:	Douglas C-47A-20-DK
Operator:	Ethiopian Air Lines
Registration:	ET-T-18
C/n / msn:	12926
First flight:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	13674
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Crew:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8
Total:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	27,5 km (17.2 mls) S of Jimma (Ethiopia)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Bulchi Airport (BCY/HABU), Ethiopia
Destination airport:	Jimma Airport (JIM/HAJM), Ethiopia
Flightnumber:	372

Narrative:
Flight ET 372 departed Bulchi at 09:04Z carrying 8 passengers and a cargo of coffee. After contacting Jimma at 09:40 the pilot requested that the Jimma NDB be turned on. There was no further contact with the flight. The DC-3 crashed on a mountainside at 9400 feet altitude.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was caused by the following: a) the pilot misjudged the weather conditions in that he continued to fly into deteriorating weather conditions while trying to maintain visual flight rules; b) he misjudged the performance capabilities of the aircraft in that he attempted to climb at a speed below the minimum safe climbing speed of the aircraft."

Events:

Sources:
» Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988