On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines ET302 crashed after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing a sustainability activist and British aid workers among others. In six minutes, pilots of Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 8 nose-dived a brand-new Boeing 737 Max aircraft, killing all 157 people on board. A brand-new airliner broke down and fell out of the sky, killing all 157 passengers in a matter of minutes. Five years have passed since Ethiopian Airlines ET302, which was flying out of Addis Ababa, Nigeria, crashed.

Among those slain were British humanitarian workers Joanna Toole, 36, and Oliver Vick, 45, as well as 25-year-old Samuel Pegram. The plane was built only four months prior. According to an inquest report dated December 2022, the Ethiopian Airplane Accident Investigation Bureau discovered that a flight control system on the aircraft had malfunctioned, causing the jet to commence a "repetitive and uncommandable" nose dive that the pilots were unable to control.

Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines A flight to Nairobi claimed the lives of all 157 passengers minutes after takeoff. It was also discovered that two Boeing company pilots had purposefully concealed "safety critical" information about the control system and their understanding of the mechanism, resulting in a reduced amount of training required to fly the aircraft, according to the Independent.

Senior coroner Penelope Schofield declared that the 157 people who perished in the jet disaster had died "unlawfully." In 2021, Boeing was fined $2.3 billion (£1.8 billion) after it was found that its employees had lied to authorities about the control system.

On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 8 Ethiopian Airlines ET302 crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa. The flight crew handbook that Boeing failed to send the victims' instructions to operate the system in was deemed "incomplete" by the coroner, who also noted that this was one of the contributing factors in the victims' deaths. She continued by saying that this would have "significantly altered the outcome" had the information been disclosed.