The flight is accepted to have had 149 travelers and eight team individuals ready, the aircraft says.
A representative said the accident occurred at 08.44 nearby time on Sunday, not long after take-off from the Ethiopian capital.
First expression of the accident came when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed communicated his "most profound sympathies" on Twitter.
The Office of the PM, for the benefit of the Government and individuals of Ethiopia, might want to express it's most profound sympathies to the groups of those that have lost their friends and family on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on customary planned trip to Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of today.
End of Twitter post by @PMEthiopia
In an announcement, the aircraft said that pursuit and salvage tasks were in progress close to the accident site around the town of Bishoftu, which is 60km (37 miles) south-east of the capital.
It didn't give subtleties on the quantity of losses.
"Ethiopian Airlines staff will be sent to the mishap scene and will do everything conceivable to help the crisis benefits," the announcement included.
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The aircraft flies to numerous goals in Africa, making it a well known transporter in a mainland where numerous carriers fly just from their nation of origin to goals outside Africa.
It has a decent notoriety for wellbeing, in spite of the fact that in 2010 one of the organization's planes smashed in the Mediterranean Sea not long after leaving Beirut.
The episode slaughtered 90 individuals ready.
The aircraft's most elevated fatalities to date arrived in a November 1996 accident amid a commandeering on a departure from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
One of the plane's motors halted when the fuel ran out and in spite of the fact that pilots endeavored a crisis water landing, they hit a coral reef in the Indian Ocean and 123 of the 175 individuals on board were murdered
