Months after a deadly crash in Indonesia concerning the equal model, a Boeing 737 MAX eight has crashed on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, wearing 149 passengers and eight group members, mins after take-off.

Operated through Ethiopian Airlines, the Boeing 737 MAX eight changed into a routine flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the Kenyan capital. The airline confirmed that there had been no survivors.

The Ethiopian top minister’s workplace turned into the first to comment on the crash, tweeting that the authorities “would like to specify its private condolences to the families of these which have misplaced their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on an ordinary scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning.”

The Boeing aircraft became reportedly trendy and were introduced to the airline simply four months ago.

The corporation stated in a declaration that it became “deeply saddened” approximately the tragic coincidence and could provide technical help to find out why its aircraft crashed.

The aircraft model has been plagued with problems. In October, a Boeing 737 MAX eight operated by using Lion Air crashed minutes after Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 189 passengers and the team.

After the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced it’d evaluate Boeing’s preceding protection analyses of the plane.

In November, Bloomberg said that the aircraft is at risk of making “abrupt dives” because of a faulty flight-tracking gadget.

Two pilot unions have accused Boeing of failing to adequately explain a safety feature on the 737 MAX eight aircraft in their manuals, claiming that the oversight can be answerable for the Lion Air crash.

The company issued a safety update in November to pilots flying the 737 MAX 8, the caution of a possible fault in a sensor that would send the aircraft into a violent nosedive.

Despite its flaws, the 737 MAX remains a widespread preference for airways. An expected two hundred Boeing aircraft presently ferrying passengers around the sector are prone to experiencing similar lethal malfunctions, Elmar Giemulla, a foremost German expert in air and site visitors law, advised RT in November.