Wasted Warnings

On March 10, 2019, eight of my colleagues and 149 passengers were killed instantly when their Nairobi-bound flight from Addis Ababa crashed six minutes after takeoff. Such a loss was staggering, incomprehensible. Relatives and loved were overcome with grief. The nation of Ethiopia came to a standstill, stunned with sadness and disbelief. The world mourned. We all wondered, "How could such a catastrophe have happened? "Why?" As a commercial pilot with almost forty years' experience, and a captain with Ethiopian Airlines for nearly two years, however, I believe I know exactly what happened. And who was to blame. I want those responsible to be held to account. People ask me why I bothered to write this book. Did I think it would make a difference? What reasons could I have? No one would listen. "I have one hundred and fifty-seven very good reasons," I say. And I still have hope that something will change, that someone will listen. And that maybe the crew and passengers killed on Flight 302 will not have lost their lives in vain.

Auteur

Bernd Kai von Hoesslin, known to many as "Kai" , is a retired Boeing B737 instructor and captain with over 2,500 hours instructing in aircraft or simulators and 6,000 in-command hours on the B737 variants. He has flown or is type-rated on the B777, B747, A300, A310, and BAe 146 and has served with twenty-one airlines or aircraft operators in his thirty-seven-year career. After leaving his fourth year of Industrial Engineering he entered aviation, training at such academies as Flight Safety International and Lufthansa Aviation Training. He has travelled and lived across the globe from South America to China exercising his passion for training pilots and flying passenger jets.