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UPDATE: Lebanese website buckling under pressure of #ET409 traffic – Government websites included. An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane with 92 people on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut airport.<\/p>\n Eyewitnesses say they saw a ball of fire in the sky before the jet, which was was bound for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, crashed into the sea.<\/p>\n Wreckage from the plane has reportedly been seen off the Lebanese coast.<\/p>\n About 50 of the passengers on board were said to be Lebanese nationals, and most of the rest were Ethiopian.<\/p>\n The plane, believed to be a Boeing 737, is said to have disappeared from radar screens some five minutes after take-off in stormy weather at about 0200 local time.<\/p>\n The BBC’s Natalia Antelava, in Beirut, reports that the Lebanese transport minister and other officials say a rescue operation is now under way, but it is not clear if there are any survivors.<\/p>\n Thousands of Ethiopians are employed as domestic helpers in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Ethiopian Airlines operates a regular flight between Addis Ababa from Beirut.<\/p>\n (source BBC NEWS)<\/b><\/p>\n tags: #ET409 , Lebanon, Beirut, Ethiopian Airlines, crash, air disaster, airline, January 2010, Lebanese Army, rescue, takeoff<\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" top most recent UPDATE: Lebanese website buckling under pressure of #ET409 traffic – Government websites included. UPDATE: President – this does not appear to be a terrorism incident UPDATE: President – we will not call off rescue before 48 hours UPDATE: President and Defense Minister press conference! photo link UPDATE: List of passengers in Arabic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUPDATE: President – this does not appear to be a terrorism incident
\nUPDATE: President – we will not call off rescue before 48 hours
\nUPDATE: President and Defense Minister press conference! photo link<\/a>
\nUPDATE: List of passengers in Arabic w\/ dates of birth http:\/\/is.gd\/6YPc9
\nUPDATE: Fares, al-Qazan, Issawi, Ismail, Hawilla, Tajeddine, Barakat, al-Laqiss, Madani, Akoush, Asal, al-Basha, al-Farran, al-Haj, al-Haraki, Farhat, Hajal, Qarnakout, Misto, Jaber, Qassarji, al-Hayek and two from Zahra family.
\nUPDATE: children in flight roster \ud83d\ude41
\nUPDATE: 2 casualties located (unconfirmed)
\nUPDATE: no survivors \/ casualties located as of yet
\nUPDATE: #ET409 was at 2500 meter altitude
\nUPDATE: #ET409 Real-Time updates #Firehose #ET409 Firehose<\/a>
\nUPDATE: weather forecast not looking good Weather Forecast<\/a>
\nUPDATE: the VIP Lounge at the Beirut International Airport is open to all families of passengers on #ET409
\nUPDATE: UN & Lebanese Army helicopters & naval vessels participating in rescue effort
\nUPDATE: 7 survivors reportedly found by Lebanese Army
\nUPDATE: Crash location, off the coast of Damour (Lebanon) between Saida and Beirut (1.5 KM from the coast)<\/p>\n