This archive report was first published on 14 October 2019.
On September 12, 2019, the International Police, through its Incident Response Team (IRT), revealed that they had identified all 157 passengers on board the ill-fated plane, which crashed near Bishoftu on March 10, 2019, killing everyone on board.
The remains of the 32 Kenyan victims arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Monday, September 16, 2019, at around 10am, on an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying the fragments of the deceased.
The loved ones of the victims were at the Syokimau parking lot for a briefing before the bodies could be released to them for burial.
Flight ET 302 took off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019, but plunged into a field shortly after, killing all 157 people on board.
According to the International Police, the identification process involved 100 experts from 14 countries in Africa, the Americas, and Europe, and took 50 days. Fingerprints and DNA samples were extracted from 48 people.
“International cooperation and coordination is vital to these efforts, and this is where Interpol’s extensive experience in DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) provides significant added value to member countries when faced with a major disaster,” the International Police said.
