A Toronto man saw a months-long wait draw to a bittersweet end on Tuesday as he returned to Canada with the bodies of two relatives who were killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane this year. The two were among 18 Canadians who died in March when the plane went down en route to Kenya, killing all 157 people on board. Ali said touching their caskets for the first time brought him a sense of lightness, energy, and a measure of peace. “We couldn’t do a lot of things like move forward because we were on standby the last seven months, waiting for the remains to come.”The Ethiopian Airlines flight left the capital city of Addis Ababa on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, on March 10. In several lawsuits filed on behalf of Canadian victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, plaintiffs allege the pilots were in a tug-of-war with the plane’s automated flight system, manually trying to climb while the computer caused the craft to dive repeatedly and ultimately crash.

Source: Ethiopian News October 22, 2019 20:43 UTC