At least 19 human beings have been killed whilst a aircraft sporting dozens of passengers plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday. “All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the nineteen folks who misplaced lives at some point of this coincidence,” Majaliwa instructed a crowd after arriving at Bukoba airport, in which the flight have been scheduled to land from monetary capital Dar es Salaam, AFP reported.
26 human beings were rescued from the Precision Air aircraft sporting forty three human beings, together with 39 passengers, crashed because of terrible weather.Precision Air, a publicly-indexed business enterprise that’s Tanzania’s biggest personal airline, stated it had dispatched rescuers to the scene.
Video photos broadcast on nearby media confirmed the aircraft in large part submerged as rescuers, together with fishermen, waded thru water to convey human beings to safety. Emergency employees tried to raise the plane out of the water the use 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 fashionable of the nearby 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 harmony to the Government & human beings 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 folks that have been suffering from the Precision Air aircraft coincidence,” Mathuki stated, additionally on Twitter. The coincidence comes 5 years after eleven human beings died whilst a aircraft belonging to safari business enterprise 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 discipline southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all 157 human beings 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, some other Kenya Airways flight from Abidjan to Nairobi crashed into the Atlantic Ocean mins after take-off, killing 169 human beings at the same time as 10 survived.