Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a domestic passenger flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, with stopovers at Brazzaville, Lagos, and Abidjan. On November 23, 1996 the Boeing 767 was hijacked by three Ethiopians that were seeking asylum in Australia. However the plane ran out of fuel, and crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands. Of the 175 occupants on-board 125 people including the hijackers were killed, and 50 people survived.

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Category:1990s in Africa
Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in the 1990s
Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Africa
Category:Comoros
Category:History of Ethiopia
Category:Mass murder in 1996

Category:Terrorist incidents in the 1990s