Tanzania Plane Crash Death Toll Rises To 19
Date
11/6/2022 6:08:20 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The death toll from Sunday's plane crash in Lake Victoria in
Tanzania has jumped to 19, according to the country's Prime
Minister Kassim Majaliwa, reports citing .
The plane, which departed from the commercial capital, Dar es
Salaam, crashed while attempting to land during stormy weather.
“All Tanzanians join you in mourning these 19 people … who have
lost their lives,” Majaliwa told reporters in the northwestern city
of Bukoba, where the plane was approaching the airport before it
plunged into water.
Regional commissioner Albert Chalamila said 43 people –
including 39 passengers, two pilots and two cabin crew – were on
board the plane.
Local authorities and the airline earlier said that 26 survivors
out of the 43 people on board flight PW 494 had been pulled to
safety and taken to hospital in Bukoba, a lakeside city in the
Kagera region.
It was not immediately clear if the 19 victims included rescuers
who drowned or whether the 48-seater aircraft had more people on
board than previously disclosed, a regional official said.
“We are continuing to investigate,” said Chalamila.“There is a
possibility that two people were not onboard but died during the
rescue effort.”
Precision Air, Tanzania's largest privately-owned airline, said
it had dispatched rescuers to the scene.
“An investigation team consisting of Precision Air technical
staff and TAA (Tanzania Airports Authority) has also departed to
join the rescue team on the ground,” the airline said in a
statement.
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