On March 10, local time, near addis Ababa, ethiopia, rescue workers cleared the wreckage of the plane at the crash site. An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane flying from the capital Addis Ababa to Kenya crashed on a farmland about 50 kilometers east of Addis Ababa shortly after takeoff on the 10th, killing all 157 people on board, including eight Chinese citizens. Immediately after the accident, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Teverd Gabremariam rushed to the scene. He said: "Today is an unusually sad day for us. The reporter saw at the scene that there was a huge deep pit left by the crashed airliner hitting the ground in the farmland, and the debris of the fuselage and passengers' luggage were scattered around the deep pit, as well as the unusually conspicuous yellow life jacket. Excavators are doing a clean-up operation on site.
Rescuers from Ethiopian Airlines, the military and medical services have cordoned off the scene, and rescuers are still collecting debris scattered around after the plane crashed. Some villagers from surrounding villages handed over fragments of aircraft wreckage found nearby to rescuers. The bodies of the victims have now been transported from the scene. The picture shows the engine components found at the crash site.
A villager named Tesfaye told reporters: "(At that time) I heard a huge explosion, my house shook, and my family and I rushed outside. Later we learned that the plane had crashed and that smoke and fire were still rising at the site of the accident. After receiving a request from the Ethiopian government department, the employees of the China Railway Seventh Bureau, who were engaged in the construction of the nearby expressway, sent personnel and mechanical equipment to the scene of the accident to participate in the rescue. The picture shows a burned-out ticket.
"At about 3:30 p.m. local time, we arrived at the scene and saw the plane crash into a pit several meters deep in the farmland. The plane should have hit the ground head down, and the entire aircraft had completely turned into fragments after hitting the ground, and there was no larger aircraft wreckage to be found. Wang Guanghui, general secretary of the Ethiopian regional party branch of the China Railway Seventh Bureau Overseas Company, said. Excavators have been cleaning the deep pits, digging out some fragments of the aircraft's wings and engines. According to Wang Guanghui, the wreckage of the head of the plane may still be buried at the bottom of the deep pit, and the black box of the plane has not been found. The picture shows the rescue scene. Text source: Xinhua Net