Ethiopian Airlines has broken a Guinness World Record for making the largest human image of an airplane.
The event was part of the continent’s first Airbus A350 XWB delivery celebration. Fittingly, 350 Ethiopian Airlines employees gathered at the company’s maintenance hangar to create an image of the A350 body, two wings, two engines and fins. The event was organised in collaboration with Airbus.A team of adjudicators from World Guinness Records checked the final shape from the air and a photograph displaying the arrangement was submitted.
“2016 has been truly exciting at Ethiopian. Along with our 70th anniversary celebration, we received Africa’s first A350 XWB aircraft, our first Airbus airplane in our fleet, and another significant milestone in the history of the African aviation industry. I would like to thank all my colleagues and partners who made this arrangement a resounding success,” said Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Ato Tewolde Gebre Mariam.