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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked on 23 November 1996,〔 en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on an Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan service, by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board died, along with the hijackers;〔 the official accident report stated that of the survivors four were uninjured and the remainder sustained injuries. The incident is one of the few documented water landing attempts of a widebody airliner with survivors.〔 Until the 11 September 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest hijacking involving a single aircraft,〔 and the second deadliest hijacking after the 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions.〔 〕 ==Aircraft== The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 767-260ER, registration ET-AIZ, c/n 23916, that had its maiden flight on 17 September 1987. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4E engines, it was delivered new to Ethiopian Airlines on 22 October 1987.〔 Except for a short period between and when it was leased to Air Tanzania, the airplane spent its life in the Ethiopian Airlines fleet.〔 It was years old at the time the incident took place. Captain Leul Abate (42), an experienced pilot with over 11,500 total flight hours, was the pilot-in-command. The first officer on the flight was Yonas Mekuria (34). He had flown more than 6,500 hours. The flight had been delayed in order to allow a connecting flight to feed passengers. The aircraft took off at 08:09 UTC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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