Crash-aerien 08 DEC 1972 d'un Boeing 720-060B registration unknown - Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport (ADD)
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Date:vendredi 8 décembre 1972
Type/Sous-type:Silhouette image of generic B720 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Boeing 720-060B
Compagnie:Ethiopian Airlines
Immatriculation: registration unknown
Numéro de série:
Année de Fabrication:
Equipage:victimes: 0 / à bord: 9
Passagers:victimes: 6 / à bord: 94
Total:victimes: 6 / à bord: 103
Dégats de l'appareil: Substantiels
Conséquences: Repaired
Lieu de l'accident:Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport (ADD) (   Ethiopie)
Phase de vol: En vol (ENR)
Nature:Transport de Passagers Intern.
Aéroport de départ:Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport (ADD/HAAB), Ethiopie
Aéroport de destination:Asmara International Airport (ASM/HAAY), Erythrée
Numéro de vol:ET708
Détails:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 708 was an international service from Addis Ababa (ADD) to Asmara, Athens, Rome and Paris. Some 13 minutes after departure five men and two women stood up, pulled out guns and began shouting orders in Amharic. Security guards opened fire and killed six of the hijackers. The seventh was injured. During the shooting one of the hijackers activated a grenade. One of the passengers picked up the grenade and lobbed it toward an unoccupied part of the passenger cabin. The grenade exploded, damaging an inboard engine as well as the plane's rudder controls. Smoke filled the cabin. The pilot returned to Addis Ababa for an emergency landing.
The hijackers were members of the Eritrean Liberation Front.

Sources:
» Brief and Bloody (Time, Dec. 18, 1972)
» Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA


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La distance entre Addis Ababa-Haile Selassie I International Airport et Asmara International Airport est de 698 km (437 miles).

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