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The left turn at nine thousand feet cost them the chance to survive

The left turn at nine thousand feet cost them the chance to survive

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A Boeing 737 climbing out of Beirut makes a sudden left turn at 9,000 feet with 90 people aboard - did they make it in time?

The left turn at nine thousand feet cost them the chance to survive

In this episode, we reconstruct the first chaotic minutes after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 took off from Beirut, piecing together radar tracks, shoreline witness accounts, and the cockpit crew profiles to show how the flight deteriorated. What happened in those four minutes and forty-one seconds, and how did crew dynamics and weather shape the choices made in the cockpit?

Date: January 25, 2010
Flight: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
Aircraft: Boeing 737, registration ET-ANB
Time: 02:41 local
Location: Off the coast near Na'ameh, Mediterranean Sea

- Four minutes and forty-one seconds after takeoff the radar return vanished while the jet was still climbing and in sight of runway lights.
- The aircraft had climbed to about 9,000 feet and then executed a left-hand turn recorded by instruments.
- Captain Habtamu Benti Negasa had 10,233 total flight hours and 2,488 on the 737; First Officer Aluna Tamerat Beyene had 673 hours total and 350 on the 737.
- Weather that night featured variable winds at eight knots and thunderstorms rolling through the eastern Mediterranean, with shifting wind directions near the coast.
- Wreckage was later located about 45 meters beneath the Mediterranean near the village of Na'ameh, while shore witnesses and radar data presented conflicting accounts.

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