Preliminary information about the final few minutes of yesterday's ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight out of Beirut indicates that the aircraft was struggling to comply with air traffic control instructions to change heading.

The Boeing 737-800, bound for Addis Ababa as flight ET409, departed towards the south from Beirut's runway 21 in darkness, but initial information suggests that the jet first turned right to head north, over the Mediterranean Sea, and was cleared to climb to a minimum crossing altitude to transit through Syrian airspace to the east.

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ديسـمبر 2009 - ينـاير 2010

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- أخبار علمية

- سـؤال و جـواب


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Bids have to be in by 8 March and the studies ...   المزيد