DRC: Plane crash kills 19

  1. Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 12:21
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    Ryekolal Raphie, Africanews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    A passenger plane crashed on Wednesday after trying to land in western Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 19 people but two survived, a deputy provincial governor told AFP.
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    The Filair Let-410 twin turboprop crashed just before 1200 GMT after failing to land at Bandundu after a 300-kilometre (200-mile) flight from the capital Kinshasa, and apparently running out of fuel, Vicky Mboso Muteba said.

    "They have brought out the people, we have 19 bodies in the morgue and two survivors," said Mboso, the deputy governor of Bandundu province, northeast of Kinshasa.

    According to the DR Congo's aviation sector, which is littered with ageing Soviet-era planes, is generally viewed as being in a chronic state of disrepair and crashes are frequent.

    An official of Kinshasa's small city-centre Ndolo airport, from which the flight took off, confirmed the crash, but did not provide any additional information.

    It is also one of the country's 50-odd registered airlines and have been placed on a European Union blacklist, banning them from flying into European airspace.

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