Ethiopia flight "had unstable vertical speed" - flight tracking site

A woman reacts as she waits for the updated flight information of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, where her fiance was onboard at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

NAIROBI (Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi that crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard "had unstable vertical speed", Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said.

"Data from Flightradar24 ADS-B network show that vertical speed was unstable after take off," the Swedish-based flight tracking organisation said on its Twitter feed.

(Reporting by Katharine Houreld;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)