On 25 January 2010 at 00:41:30 UTC Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 409 a Boeing 737-800 on its way from Beirut to Addis Abeba crashed just after take-off from Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea about 5 NM South West of Beirut International Airport. All 90 persons on board were killed in the accident. The investigation concluded that the probable causes of the accident were pilot errors due to loss of situational awareness. Ethiopian Airlines refutes this