Factbox: Details of Lebanon crash plane

(Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 airliner with 90 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after leaving Beirut in bad weather early on Monday.

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The Boeing 737-800 is among the most recent versions of the 737, a family of single-aisle aircraft in service since 1968 and often described as the workhorse of short- and medium-haul aviation alongside the competing Airbus A320 series.

The 737-800 is part of the second or "next" generation of 737s in production since the 1990s. The 737-800 model entered service in 1998.

Ethiopian Airlines does not own any 737-800s, according to the website of Chicago-based Boeing, but the airline was reported last year to have leased two such planes.

AIRCRAFT DETAILS

Passenger capacity (2-class) 162

(1-class) 189

Flight crew 2

Length 129 feet 6 inches

Max wing span 117 ft 5 in

Interior cabin width 11 ft 7 in