A Swiss court on Monday sentenced an Ethiopian pilot who hijacked his own plane in 2014 with 202 passengers aboard to receive supervised psychiatric treatment. Former Ethiopian Airlines pilot Heilemedehin Abera Tagegn has been ruled as mentally unstable after he… Read more ›
An investigation to discover why the nose gear of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-800 aircraft collapsed before takeoff last week, has revealed that the accident was caused by human error. According to AIN, the accident was caused by technical failures.… Read more ›
An Ethiopian Airlines flight attendant sustained injuries after the nose gear of a plane heading to Italy from Addis Ababa on Friday broke down moments before takeoff. According to the Aviation Herald, the accident happened after the nose gear of… Read more ›
Swiss authorities have acquitted an Ethiopian Airlines pilot after ruling that he was mentally unstable when he hijacked his own plane with 202 passengers aboard and rerouted it to Geneva to seek political asylum. The Swiss Attorney General said all… Read more ›
Authorities in Ethiopia have arrested a Sudanese traveler who attacked and attempted to kill an Israeli passenger aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Chad to Addis Ababa on Thursday, Oct. 29. On Tuesday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed… Read more ›
Air China made its first direct flight from the China’s capital city Beijing to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday. The is the second flight route that the Asian airline giant has launched to Africa in less than a week after… Read more ›
An Ethiopian asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa. The stowaway was found after… Read more ›
Ethiopian Airlines was forced to postpone two flights to Israel on Thursday after it did not have permission to fly on route due to the escalating turmoil in Yemen and in light of information received from security sources. About 280… Read more ›
Xinhua (Addis Ababa) — On Monday Ethiopian Airlines will commence its flights to Madrid, Spain, which has become the 10th European destination of the airliner. Ethiopian flights to Madrid is operated through Rome and has brought the number of the airline’s international… Read more ›
The east African region has been set on its toes following the revelation of an outbreak of Ebola infections in west Africa this March. This disease, which was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan in the… Read more ›
Swiss officials have revealed that the Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot, Hailemedhin Abera, who hijacked his own flight on Monday, will be charged for taking hostages. A Swiss court has reportedly appointed a defence counsel for Abera and ordered that he is… Read more ›
Ethiopian Airlines is set to initiate a new route to Mogadishu following the cooperative agreements in transportation and aviation between the two nations, reports indicate. Analysts say that this move signifies a vote of confidence in the financial turnaround of… Read more ›
An Ethiopian Airline co-pilot on Monday hijacked a Boeing 767 fight destined for Rome and landed it in an airport in Geneva before handing himself over to authorities. The Ethiopian man, identified as Hailemedehin Abera Tegegn, believed to be 31… Read more ›