Video: Passenger Plane Crashes Into Lake Victoria In Tanzania, 19 Killed

The demise count from Sunday’s aircraft crash in Tanzania has jumped to 19, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa stated, after the Precision Air flight with dozens of passengers aboard plunged into Lake Victoria even as drawing near the northwestern town of Bukoba.All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the nineteen individuals who misplaced lives all through 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.

Regional government in advance stated that 26 survivors out of the forty three humans on board flight PW 494 have been pulled to protection and brought to sanatorium withinside the lakeside town. But Precision Air, a publicly-indexed agency that’s Tanzania’s biggest non-public carrier, stated in a announcement that 24 humans had survived the coincidence, with an airline reputable telling AFP that the alternative hospitalised sufferers had been now no longer aboard the aircraft to start with.There are individuals who had been injured all through rescue efforts who’ve been counted as survivors however they had been now no longer passengers,” he stated on situation of anonymity.

The airline stated it had dispatched rescuers and investigators to the scene and expressed its “inner most sympathies” over the coincidence, which took place at round 08:fifty three am (0553 GMT) on Sunday.The agency stated the plane became an ATR 42-500, synthetic via way of means of Toulouse-primarily based totally Franco-Italian organization ATR, and had 39 passengers — such as an infant — and 4 group participants on board.Video photos broadcast on nearby media confirmed the aircraft in large part submerged as rescuers, such as fishermen, waded via water to carry humans to protection.

Emergency employees tried to boost the plane out of the water the use of ropes, assisted via way of means of cranes as citizens additionally sought to assist.President Samia Suluhu Hassan expressed her condolences to the ones tormented by the coincidence, saying: “We pray to god to assist us.”The catastrophe ranks a number of the deadliest aircraft crashes withinside the East African nation’s history. ‘Heroic efforts’ -The US embassy in Dar es Salaam launched a announcement, paying tribute to “the heroic efforts of first responders, in particular everyday residents who helped rescue victims.”

The African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat additionally shared his condolences, as did the secretary popular of the local East African Community bloc, Peter Mathuki.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 & humans of #Tanzania,” Faki wrote on Twitter.”The East African Community joins and sends our condolences to Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan, households and buddies of all individuals who had been tormented by the Precision Air aircraft coincidence,” Mathuki stated, additionally on Twitter.

Precision Air, that’s in part owned via way of means of Kenya Airways, became based in 1993 and operates home and local flights in addition to non-public charters to famous visitor locations which include Serengeti National Park and the Zanzibar archipelago.The coincidence comes 5 years after eleven humans died whilst a aircraft belonging to safari agency 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 subject southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all 157 humans on board.The catastrophe, 5 months after a comparable crash in Indonesia, induced the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX version of jet for 20 months, earlier than it again to carrier in past due 2020.

A plane has crashed into Lake Victoria in Bukoba in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Rescue efforts are underway. The plane belongs to Precision Air. #Tanzania #Planecrash pic.twitter.com/1GItlItEoM

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In 2007, a Kenya Airways flight from the Ivory Coast town 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 humans even as 10 survived. A 12 months in advance, a dozen humans, such as 10 US tourists, died in a aircraft crash in northern Tanzania even as flying among Serengeti National Park and the Kilimanjaro airport.