Ethiopian Airlines crash: 8 Americans among 157 killed Ethiopian Airlines grounded the rest of its new Boeing 737 Max 8 planes while it investigates Sunday's crash that killed 157 people. Flight 302 to Nairobi, Kenya went down minutes after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The victims come from 35 countries, and eight of them are American. Debora Patta reports from Nairobi.