Ethiopian Plane Crash: Families mourn loved ones lost in tragedy

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More information on the victims from the crash is now emerging, as families and loved ones try to come to terms with the tragedy. CGTN's Robert Nagila has our next report.

A minute's silence at the UN environmental assembly in Nairobi.

Honouring those who lost their lives on flight ET 302 on Sunday.

Among them 19 United Nations staff members.

ROBERT NAGILA NAIROBI, KENYA "As investigations begin in earnest to establish the cause of the plane crash, we are now beginning to get more information about some of the victims of flight ET 302."

Like Cedric Asiavugwa a third-year law student at Georgetown University who was on his way home to Nairobi after the death of his fiancee's mother.

His colleagues described him as a man with a big heart.

"He was a great resource for us and it was amazing because he was actually going to school for law and he made time for us, he was inspiring."

Another victim was Nigerian-born scholar and author Pius Adesanmi, a director at Carleton University's Institute of African Studies at The Ottawa university who was among 18 Canadians killed in the crash.

The university's Vice Chancellor described him as "a towering figure in African and post-colonial scholarship and his sudden loss is a tragedy."

China lost 8 citizens in the tragedy among them 32 year old Jin Yetao.

His employer, Aviation Industry Corporation of China said "Jin had been stationed in South Sudan for four years and promoted the 'Belt and Road Initiative' in Africa."

In western Kenya, the family of one of the victims, Isabella Jaboma described her as a loving daughter.

LUCY AKETCH RELATIVE OF DECEASED PASSENGER "She was a disciplined girl, she had a free heart, a loving girl and she was very bright."

And with the black boxes of the ill-fated flight now recovered,

investigators will be trying to piece together the last moments of flight 302 and her 157 crew and passengers. RN, CGTN, N, K.