Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

When

23 Nov 1996

Kind

Event

Coordinates

11.37° S, 43.31° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

1996 aircraft hijacking and crash in the Comoros

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled international flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “На пути из Аддис-Абебы в Найроби был угнан Boeing 767-260ER Эфиопских авиалиний рейса 961, летевший по маршруту Бомбей — Аддис-Абеба — Найроби — Браззавиль”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un Boeing 767 secuestrado por unos hombres armados con cuchillos se estrella en el Océano Índico, tras habérsele agotado el combustible en pleno vuelo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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