This archive report was first published on 14 October 2019.
On Monday, October 14, 2019, a plane carrying the remains of 32 Kenyans who perished in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at around 10am.
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.
The Nairobi-bound Flight ET 302 crashed into a field near Bishoftu on March 10, shortly after taking off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
After a DNA matching process that took over six months, the International Police, through its Incident Response Team (IRT), revealed on September 12, 2019, that they had identified all 157 passengers on board the plane.
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.
