Indonesian national among passengers in crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight: Indonesian embassy

A man carries a piece of debris on his head at the crash site of a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. – A Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all eight crew and 149 passengers on board, including tourists, business travellers, and “at least a dozen” UN staff. (Photo by Michael TEWELDE / AFP)
A man carries a piece of debris on his head at the crash site of a Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. – A Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all eight crew and 149 passengers on board, including tourists, business travellers, and “at least a dozen” UN staff. (Photo by Michael TEWELDE / AFP)

Update: The Indonesian victim of the crashed Ethiopia Airlines flight ET302 has been identified as Harina Hafitz, who worked for the UN’s World Food Programme and lived in Rome.


The Indonesian Embassy in Addis Ababa has confirmed that one Indonesian national was among the passengers of an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 that tragically crashed near the Ethiopian capital yesterday.

All 149 passengers and eight crew members have been confirmed to be dead by Ethiopian authorities.

“It’s true [that there was an Indonesian passenger on the flight]. Right now the KBRI (Indonesian Embassy) is coordinating with Ethiopian Airlines to determine the passenger’s complete identity and their rescue process,” Addis Ababa KBRI official Christine Refina told Medcom yesterday evening.

“Along with several foreign embassies, KBRI is still at the Ethiopian Airlines office.”

According to reports, citizens of 35 countries were victims of the crash, including 32 from Kenya, 18 from Canada, and nine from Ethiopia.

The plane, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa yesterday morning. Authorities have yet to determine the cause of the crash, but aviation analysts are already speculating on the possibility that there were similarities between ET302 and Indonesia’s Lion Air flight JT-610, which crashed in October 2018 and killed all 189 on board, since both flights utilized the 737 MAX, Boeing’s new jet model.



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