ABC News Australia
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Aviation authorities in Lebanon say there is no sign of survivors from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that plunged into the Mediterranean Sea with 90 people on board.
The plane, heading for Addis Ababa, disappeared off the radar shortly after taking off from Beirut during a thunder storm and heavy rain.
Rescue workers have recovered more than 20 bodies from the water where the Boeing 737 crashed into the sea about 2:00am local time.
Witnesses reported a ball of fire in the sky just minutes after the plane took off from Beirut for the Ethiopian capital.
Fifty-five people on board were Lebanese and 22 were Ethiopian, while some had citizenship from Britain, Canada, Russia, Syria and France.
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