1996 Ethiopian Airlines flight accident in Comoros
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
ET-AIZ, the aircraft involved, pictured six months before the crash
Hijacking/Accident
Date
23 November 1996 (1996-11-23)
Summary
Hijacking leading to unsuccessful ditching attempt and crash caused by fuel exhaustion
Site
Grande Comore, Comoros 11°22′22″S43°18′25″E / 11.37278°S 43.30694°E / -11.37278; 43.30694
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 767-260ER
Operator
Ethiopian Airlines
IATA flight No.
ET961
ICAO flight No.
ETH961
Call sign
ETHIOPIAN 961
Registration
ET-AIZ
Flight origin
Bole International Airport Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1st stopover
Jomo Kenyatta Int'l Airport Nairobi, Kenya
2nd stopover
Maya-Maya Airport Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Last stopover
Murtala Mohammed Int'l Airport Lagos, Nigeria
Destination
Port Bouet Airport Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Occupants
175 (including 3 hijackers)
Passengers
163 (including 3 hijackers)
Crew
12
Fatalities
125 (including 3 hijackers)
Injuries
46
Survivors
50
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked[1] en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi[2] by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia.[3] The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board, including the three hijackers, died.[3] This is the first recorded instance of a partially successful ditching utilizing a wide-body aircraft.
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^"Ethiopian Airlines B767(ET-AIZ) Aircraft Accident in the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, in the Indian Ocean on November 23, 1996" (PDF). Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority. 4 May 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
^ abHijacking description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 24 May 2011.
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