Prime Minister Andrew Holness - file photo
A "tragedy of immense scale" is how Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crash in Addis Abba.
Mr. Holness on Monday extended condolences to the families, loved ones and colleagues of the victims.
All 157 people aboard, from more than 35 different countries, perished in the tragedy.
Mr. Holness expressed Jamaica's support and sympathy to the governments and people of Ethiopia and Kenya.
The plane was en route from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, when it crashed six minutes after take-off.
Several airlines have grounded the Boeing model following the disaster.
Meanwhile, investigators have found the flight data recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane.
The devices recovered at the crash site were the Boeing 737 Max 8's cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder.
The cause of the disaster is not yet clear.
Ethiopian Airlines said the pilot had reported difficulties and asked to return to Addis Ababa.
The pilot was named as Senior Captain Yared Getachew who Ethiopian Airlines said had a commendable performance with more than 8,000 hours in the air.
Several witnesses who worked in the farmland below the plane's flight path told the Reuters news agency they heard loud rattling noises coming from the aircraft and saw billows of smoke and debris in its wake as it made a low turn over the fields.
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