埃航墜毀客機(jī)的黑匣子已找到
Both the digital flight data recorder (DFDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) on the crashed aircraft that killed all 157 aboard on Sunday have been recovered, Ethiopian Airlines said Monday in a statement.
A Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
A total of 149 passengers and eight crew members were on the Boeing 737 Max 8 commercial aircraft.
China, Indonesia and Ethiopia have grounded Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft following the deadly crash on Sunday.
The company on Monday announced that it has indefinitely grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 jets following the fatal crash as an "extra safety precaution." Chinese aviation regulators have also ordered domestic airlines to suspend operations of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes.
People from 35 countries were aboard, with Kenyan nationals making up the largest number of passengers on board, 32 in total.
The Boeing 737 Max-8 plane went down at 08:44 a.m. local time, six minutes after taking off.
It's not yet known what caused the crash, but the carrier said the pilot had reported difficulties and asked for permission to return.
After the deadly crash, a Chinese firm, the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), assisted in the rescue work by quickly mobilizing large-scale equipment.
The search for bodies is still underway and the "black box," the jetliner's flight data recorder, or black box, has not been found yet.
Who are the victims?
According to the breakdown of nationalities given out by the airline and a Kenyan transport official, 18 Canadians and nine Ethiopians were killed, as were eight passengers each from China, Italy, and the U.S.
根據(jù)該航空公司和一名肯尼亞交通官員提供的國籍分類，18名加拿大人和9名埃塞俄比亞人遇難，中國、意大利和美國各有8名乘客遇難。
Britain and France each had seven people on board, Egypt six, the Netherlands five and India four. Four were UN passport-holders.
英國和法國各有7人，埃及6人，荷蘭5人，印度4人。其中四人持有聯(lián)合國護(hù)照。
The airlines also said four people were using UN passports and it's not yet clear what their nationalities were.
航空公司還表示，有四人使用聯(lián)合國護(hù)照，目前尚不清楚他們的國籍。
What happened?
The flight ET302 lost contact at 8:44 a.m. local time around Ethiopia's Bishoftu town, six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport at 8:38 a.m. en route to the Kenyan capital.
這架ET302航班于當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間上午8點(diǎn)44分在埃塞俄比亞比斯霍夫圖鎮(zhèn)附近失去聯(lián)系。6分鐘前，這架飛機(jī)于上午8點(diǎn)38分從亞的斯亞貝巴的Bole國際機(jī)場起飛，飛往肯尼亞首都。
The plane was reportedly delivered to the airline four months ago.
據(jù)報(bào)道，這架飛機(jī)是四個(gè)月前交付給該航空公司的。
Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said on Twitter that the crashed aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 "had unstable vertical speed" after taking off.
瑞典飛行跟蹤網(wǎng)站flightradar24在Twitter上表示，墜毀的飛機(jī)是一架波音737 MAX 8飛機(jī)，起飛后“垂直速度不穩(wěn)定”。
Boeing said it will provide technical assistance to the investigation.
波音公司表示，將為調(diào)查提供技術(shù)援助。
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the same type of plane in the Indonesian Lion Air jet crash which killed the 189 people on board in October last year.
去年10月印尼雄獅航空公司(indonesia Lion Air)的一架飛機(jī)墜毀，機(jī)上189人遇難。
Ethiopia Airlines has a reputation of being one of the best airlines in Africa, boasting a good safety record and the newest fleet of planes on the continent, according to its website.
埃塞俄比亞航空公司的網(wǎng)站顯示，該公司擁有非洲最好的航空公司之一的聲譽(yù)，擁有良好的安全記錄和非洲大陸最新的飛機(jī)機(jī)隊(duì)。
The last major crash involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was in January 2010, when a flight from Beirut went down shortly after take-off, killing 83 passengers and seven crew members.
上一次埃塞俄比亞航空公司客機(jī)墜毀事件發(fā)生在2010年1月，當(dāng)時(shí)一架從貝魯特起飛的飛機(jī)在起飛后不久墜毀，造成83名乘客和7名機(jī)組人員死亡。
