19 Killed After Passenger Plane Plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
19 Killed After Passenger Plane Plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
At least 19 people were killed when a aeroplanecarrying dozens of passengers plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday.All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the 19 people who lost lives during this accident,” Majaliwa told a crowd after arriving at Bukoba field, where the flight had been listed to land from fiscal capital Dar es Salaam, AFP reported.26 people have been saved from the Precision Air aeroplanecarrying 43 people, including 39 passengers, crashed due to bad rainfall.
Precision Air, a intimately- listed company which is Tanzania’s largest private airline, said it had dispatched saviors to the scene.Videotape footage broadcast on original media showed the aeroplane
largely submerged as saviors , including fishers, waded through water to bring people to safety. exigency workers tried to lift the aircraft out of the water using ropes, supported by cranes as original residers also sought to help in the trouble.The African Union Commission president Moussa Faki Mahamat and the clerk general of the indigenous East African Community bloc, Peter Mathuki expressed condolences over the crash.
Our hearts and prayers go to the families of passengers on- board a aeroplanethat crashed into Lake Victoria, with our full solidarity to the Government & people of#Tanzania,” Faki wrote on Twitter.The East African Community joins and sends our condolences to Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan, families and musketeers of all those who were affected by the Precision Air aeroplane
accident,” Mathuki said, also on Twitter.
The accident comes five times after 11 people failed when a aeroplanebelonging to safari company Coastal Aviation crashed in northern Tanzania. In March 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi plunged six twinkles after take- off into a field southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all 157 people on board.
In 2007, a Kenya Airways flight from the Ivory Coast megacity of Abidjan to Kenya’s capital Nairobi crashed into a swamp later take- off, killing all 114 passengers.In 2000, another Kenya Airways flight from Abidjan to Nairobi crashed into the Atlantic Ocean twinkles after take- off, killing 169 people while 10 survived.
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