Ethiopian Airlines CEO says a pilot of crashed flight had more than 200 flight hours, plane is new

The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, said Sunday that a pilot of the crashed plane, Mohammed Nur Mohammed, had more than 200 flight hours and that the plane was “new and clean” and received its first maintenance check in early February. He also paid condolences to the passengers and crew who died.

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