Seven Britons and one Irish citizen were among the dead, as well as scientists, doctors, aid workers and three members of a Slovakian MP’s family.
More than 150 people were killed yesterday when an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa.
‘It’s just tragic that she couldn’t carry on to further her career and achieve more,’ he told the BBC.‘She was very well known in her own line of business and we’ve had many tributes already paid to her.’ The aid worker and engineer, known as Mick, was formerly from Lahinch in Co Clare in Ireland’s west and was believed to be married with two children and living in Cork.
Raised in Brittany, the environmental agent was leading AECO’s efforts to cut back single-use plastics on Arctic expeditions and co-ordinating beach clean-ups.Joseph Waithaka A spokesperson for the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife in Kenya said: ‘Our sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of CEO, Jonathan Seex, who was on the ill-fated flight’ – German national Anne-Katrin Feigl was named as a crash victim by the International Organisation for Migration .
– Sicilian regional culture ministry assessor Sebastiano Tusa, an underwater archaeologist, was also reportedly on the plane.– Danielle Moore, 24, was headed to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, when she died.– Assistant pastor Derick Lwugi, an accountant from Calgary, died in the crash, a friend of his family told CBC News.
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