Former Football Administrator Hussein Swaleh is among the 32 Kenyans who perished in today’s Ethiopian crash.
Swaleh, the former Kenya Football Federation (KFF) Secretary General was confirmed dead that he was on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday morning on its way from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
Swaleh was returning from Caf Champions League match pitting Egyptian side Ismailia and DRC’s TP Mazembe played on Friday in Cairo.
Swaleh was the match commissioner during the contest.
According to a statement from the airline, all 157 people on board have died.
The airline added that there were 33 different nationalities on board.
The crash happened at 08.44 local time, six minutes after the flight took-off from the Ethiopian capital.
Ethiopian Airlines identified the flight number as ET 302/10 and said the crash took place around Bishoftu, formerly known as Debre-Zeit.
The plane’s other identification details were given as B-737-800MAX, registration ET-AVJ.
The aircraft left Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital at 8.38am local time and lost contact six minutes later.
The Boeing 737-800MAX is the same type of plane as the Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed last October, 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
Additional information Daily Nation