Black box of crashed Ethiopian Airlines found

The black box of crashed Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 recovered on Monday. The crash claimed lives of 157 people. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which was bound for the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, came down minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa.

Bishoftu: Air crash investigators and Red Cross workers on Monday recovered the black box of Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed south-east of the country's capital on Sunday, killing all 157 people onboard.

Air crash investigators and Red Cross workers spent Monday retrieving remains and personal items belonging to the 149 passengers and eight crew members, of 35 different nationalities, who were on flight ET302.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which was bound for the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, came down minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa.

Tsegaye Reta, from the nearby village of Bishoftu, said he heard a "big noise" when the plane came down and villagers rushed to the crash site, where he said there was so much smoke they could not even see the plane.

An airline official, however, said that the box is partially damaged and that "we will see what we can retrieve from it."

The official spoke on condition of anonymity for lack of authorisation to speak to the media.