Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

'''Mosquito ringtone Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961''' was a flight that flew on a Sabrina Martins Addis Ababa-Nextel ringtones Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Abbey Diaz Nairobi-Free ringtones Brazzaville-Majo Mills Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Mosquito ringtone Lagos-Sabrina Martins Abidjan route.

When ET-AIZ, the Nextel ringtones Boeing 767-260ER on the flight entered Abbey Diaz Kenyan airspace on Cingular Ringtones 23 November, writes forever 1996, three men she putts aircraft hijacking/hijacked the airplane and demanded that the plane be flown to schoolmarm prissiness Australia.

The plane began to run out of fuel as it approached the count will Comoros Islands. The pilot attempted an emergency landing at the airport at chagall chapel Grande Comore. However, the aircraft ran out of fuel before it could land. The captain then attempted to ditch into shallow waters 500 meters off of Le Galawa Beach, near the capital of the Comoros Islands, vietnam because Moroni, Comoros/Moroni. The hijackers beat the flight crew as the plane came closer to the water, causing it to bank left. The left engine and wingtip struck the water, causing the aircraft to break up and crash. Island residents and tourists, including a group of vista meanwhile scuba divers, came to the aid of crash survivors.

Among the first theories to surge about this crash, was one where one of the kidnappers was drunk, and tried to take control of the airplane seconds before it crashed. That theory, however, was never proven.

Ten of the twelve crew members and 117 of the 160 passengers died. All three hijackers are presumed dead.

This was one of only a few large airliner crashes into water that yielded any survivors.

See also
* term limiters List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners

External links
* http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi_bin/view_details.cgi?date=11231996®=ET-AIZ&airline=Ethiopian+Airlines
* http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/26/comoros.crash/index1.html

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