| Date: | Friday 15 July 1960 |
| Time: | 09:40 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-20-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Air Lines |
| Registration: | ET-T-18 |
| MSN: | 12926 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 13674 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 27,5 km S of Jimma -
 Ethiopia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bulchi Airport (BCY/HABU) |
| Jimma Airport (JIM/HAJM) |
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."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988
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