埃航客机失事无人生还
这是波音737MAX在不到5个月内的第二起事故。目前国内航司已暂停运行该机型。
People walk past a part of the wreckage at the scene of the Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, March 10, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
An Ethiopian Airlines jet has crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board.
当地时间10日，埃塞俄比亚航空公司一架飞机从亚的斯亚贝巴起飞不久后坠毁，机上无人生还。
The airline said 149 passengers and eight crew members were on flight ET302 from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi in Kenya.
这架ET302航班上共有149名乘客和8名机组成员，原计划从埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴飞往肯尼亚首都内罗毕。
The crash happened at 08:44 local time, six minutes after the months-old Boeing 737 Max-8 took off.
坠机事故发生在当地时间上午8点44分，飞机起飞后仅6分钟便坠毁。这架波音737 Max-8机型的飞机交付使用只有几个月时间。
Another plane of the same model was involved in a crash less than five months ago, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia with nearly 190 people on board.
不到五个月前，同型号机型发生过另一起坠机事故。当时印尼狮航一架波音737 Max-8坠毁在印尼附近海域，机上有近190人。
坠机时发生了什么?
The cause of the disaster is not yet clear. However, the pilot had reported difficulties and had asked to return to Addis Ababa, the airline said.
事故原因尚不清楚。但埃航表示，飞行员起飞后曾报告遇到困难，要求返航。
"At this stage, we cannot rule out anything," Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told reporters at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.
埃航首席执行官特沃多·格布勒玛里亚姆在亚的斯亚贝巴博莱机场告诉记者说：“在目前阶段，我们无法排除任何可能。”
"We cannot also attribute the cause to anything because we will have to comply with the international regulation to wait for the investigation."
“我们也不能追究任何原因，因为我们将遵守国际规范，静待调查结果。”
Visibility was said to be good but air traffic monitor Flightradar24 reported that the plane's "vertical speed was unstable after take-off".
据说事发时机场能见度良好，但据航空监测应用Flightradar24表示，“飞机起飞后垂直速度不稳”。
An eyewitness at the scene told the BBC there was an intense fire as the aircraft hit the ground.
一位目击者告诉英国广播公司说，坠机事故发生后，地上燃起大火。
"The blast and the fire were so strong that we couldn't get near it," he said. "Everything is burnt down."
他说：“爆炸和火势非常猛烈，我们无法靠近，一切都烧毁了。”
The plane was delivered to Ethiopian Airlines on November 15 last year. It underwent a "rigorous first check maintenance" on February 4, the airline tweeted.
这架飞机于去年11月15日交付使用。埃航在推特中说，飞机在2月4日进行了“严格的首次维护”。
