Ethiopia Guinness World Records: Largest human airplane

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – July 5, 2016 – Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and the leading pan-African Airline has broken a Guinness World Record for making the largest ever human image of an Airplane; the event was part of Africa’s first Airbus A350 XWB delivery and 350 Ethiopian Employees have gathered at Ethiopian Maintenance hangar to create an image of the actual A350 aircraft, thus setting the new world record for the Largest human airplane.

Photo: Ethiopian Airlines has broken a Guinness World Record for making the largest ever human image of an Airplane. The event was part of Africa’s first Airbus A350 XWB delivery and 350 Ethiopian Employees have gathered at Ethiopian Maintenance hangar to create an image of the actual A350 aircraft. 

The Guinness World Records world record for the largest human image of a boat consists of 323 participants and was achieved by Servier (Ireland) Industries Ltd., in Arklow, Ireland, on 27 March 2015.

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest human letter; it numbers 2,166 participants and was achieved by Dell Technologies (USA) in Round Rock, Texas, USA, on 22 June 2016.

The event was part of Africa’s first Airbus A350 XWB delivery and 350 Ethiopian Employees have gathered at Ethiopian Maintenance hangar to create an image of the actual A350 aircraft which clearly represents an airplane consisting of a body, two wings, two engines and fins.

The event was organized in collaboration with Airbus and a team of adjudicators from World Guinness Records have thoroughly checked the final shape from the air and a photograph displaying the arrangement was submitted.

Ethiopian Airlines has been a pioneer in Aviation technology leadership, from the jet-age in the 1960’s, its history tells of many proud firsts on the continent including introduction of this latest technology Aircraft, the Airbus A350 XWB, dubbed the “Semien Mountain”. Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam stated on the occasion, “The year 2016 has been truly exciting at Ethiopian. Along with our 70th year anniversary celebration, we received Africa’s first A350 XWB aircraft, which is our first Airbus airplane in our fleet and another significant milestone in the history of African Aviation industry.”