Bulletin: On the Ethiopian Airlines Crash

10 March 2019 – The Philippines expresses its condolences to Ethiopia after 149 passengers and eight crew members were killed when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max-8 crashed while enroute to Kenya on Sunday.

The loved ones of those who perished in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 are in our thoughts and prayers, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement.

The DFA said it has directed the Philippine embassies in Cairo and Nairobi to coordinate with concerned authorities in Addis Ababa and Nairobi to determine if there are Filipinos among the 33 foreign nationalities on board the ill-fated aircraft. END