{"id":273899,"date":"2019-04-24T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRpbWVzb2Zpc3JhZWwuY29tL3dlZWtzLWFmdGVyLXBsYW5lLWNyYXNoLWV0aGlvcGlhLXN0aWxsLWJsb2NraW5nLWFjY2Vzcy10by12aWN0aW1zLXJlbWFpbnMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:49","slug":"after-et302-ethiopia-blocked-families-from-victims-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273899","title":{"rendered":"After ET302, Ethiopia blocked families from victims\u2019 remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after the 10 March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash, The Times of Israel reported that Ethiopia was still <strong>blocking access<\/strong> to victims\u2019 remains, with relatives describing the site as disordered and belongings left exposed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-499682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boeing-737.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"After ET302, Ethiopia blocked families from victims\u2019 remains\" \/>\n<p>One relative of the 157 killed said the crash field remained a scene of grief without dignity: bones, personal effects, and unanswered questions about why families could not retrieve what the impact left behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian government\u2019s handling of ET302 mixed technical investigation politics with raw human failure. Boeing\u2019s software story dominated global headlines. Families needed bodies, answers, and respect.<\/p>\n<p>As accountability archive, this file refuses to let the crash become only an aviation-engineering case study. How Abiy Ahmed\u2019s state treated bereaved families is part of the record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/weeks-after-plane-crash-ethiopia-still-blocking-access-to-victims-remains\/\">The Times of Israel<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after plane crash, Ethiopia still blocking access to victims&#8217; remains&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times of IsraelRelative of one of the 157 killed in the crash says impact site left in disarray, with belongings and remains scattered on the ground, exposed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":499682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Boeing-737.jpg?fit=820%2C557&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601058,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273899\/revisions\/601058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}