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Search widened to find victims of Ethiopian Plane crash

lebanan plane crashBoth Lebanese and International efforts were widened on Tuesday to find the victims and missing flight recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea just after taking of from Beirut.

The U.S. a European and U.N. peacekeeping helicopters and a U.S. naval vessel were searching through out the night for wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 that fell in to the Mediterranean sea in a ball of fire on Monday.

The flight was heading to Addis Ababa before it disappeared from radars just 5 minutes after take off with the passengers on board who were mostly Lebanese and Ethiopian.

Lebanese authorities have announced that the first body count they found were incorrect and that only 14 bodies were found including 2 toddlers.

According to first reports, the accident was not a terrorist attack and the pane had broken into pieces in mid air.

Many relatives were angry the plane had been allowed to take off in bad weather.

Information Minister Tareq Mitri, speaking after meeting ministers and security officials late on Monday, said there had been no reason to stop the plane taking off

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