Ethiopian Airlines Beirut News – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 has been reported missing when it took off a Boeing 737 plane from Beirut International Airport.

Lebanese Officials said that the Ethiopian Airlines was found in a crashed site which has been identified three-and-a-half km (two miles) west of the (coastal) village of Na’ameh in Beirut Lebanon.

Ethiopians Airlines Flight 409 had been scheduled to take off at 2:10 a.m. but it actually left at 2:30 because of stormy weather conditions. 45 minutes after its take off, the Ethiopians Airlines was nowhere to be found in the radar at Lebanon.

Ethiopians Airlines was set to go on a 1,730-mile flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital on a 4 hours and 40 minutes flight time. Ethiopian officials said that there are 82 passengers on board– 51 Lebanese nationals, 23 Ethiopians, two Britons, an Iraqi, a Turk, a Syrian, a Canadian, a Russian and a person from France, the airline said.

One of the passengers in the Ethiopian Airlines was the wife of the French ambassador to Lebanon, said Anne Charlotte of the French embassy.

Police officials point to stormy weather as the cause since it was raining heavily in Beirut, Lebanon since Sunday night.

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