19 Killed After Passenger Plane Plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
19 Killed After Passenger Plane Plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
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At least 19 humans have been killed while a aircraft sporting dozens of passengers plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday.
“All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the nineteen individuals who misplaced lives at some stage in this twist of fate,” Majaliwa informed a crowd after arriving at Bukoba airport, wherein the flight have been scheduled to land from economic capital Dar es Salaam, AFP reported.
26 humans were rescued from the Precision Air aircraft sporting forty three humans, which includes 39 passengers, crashed because of terrible weather.
Precision Air, a publicly-indexed corporation that is Tanzania’s biggest non-public airline, stated it had dispatched rescuers to the scene.
Video pictures broadcast on nearby media confirmed the aircraft in large part submerged as rescuers, which includes fishermen, waded via water to deliver humans to safety. Emergency employees tried to boost the plane out of the water the usage of ropes, assisted with the aid of using cranes as nearby citizens additionally sought to assist withinside the effort.
The African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat and the secretary wellknown of the local East African Community bloc, Peter Mathuki expressed condolences over the crash.
“Our hearts and prayers visit the households of passengers on-board a aircraft that crashed into Lake Victoria, with our complete cohesion to the Government & humans of #Tanzania,” Faki wrote on Twitter.
“The East African Community joins and sends our condolences to Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan, households and pals of all people who have been stricken by the Precision Air aircraft twist of fate,” Mathuki stated, additionally on Twitter.
The twist of fate comes 5 years after eleven humans died while a aircraft belonging to safari corporation Coastal Aviation crashed in northern Tanzania. In March 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi plunged six mins after take-off right into a area southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all 157 humans on board.
In 2007, a Kenya Airways flight from the Ivory Coast metropolis of Abidjan to Kenya’s capital Nairobi crashed right into a swamp after take-off, killing all 114 passengers.
In 2000, any other Kenya Airways flight from Abidjan to Nairobi crashed into the Atlantic Ocean mins after take-off, killing 169 humans whilst 10 survived.
