In late April 2019, relatives told The Telegraph that human remains and personal belongings were still scattered across the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash field about a month after the disaster that killed 157 people.
Grief collided with bureaucracy. Families wanted dignity and access. Boeing’s software story dominated foreign headlines while the ground in Ethiopia stayed a raw crime-scene of unfinished care.
Abiy Ahmed’s government faced an accountability test that was not only technical. How a state treats bereaved families is part of the crash record, not a footnote.
As archive, this sits beside earlier reporting on blocked access to victims’ remains. ET302 is aviation history and a human-rights file about respect after catastrophe.
Sources: The Telegraph, The Times of Israel
