An official said no survivors were expected from a small plane believed to have been carrying 19 passengers and crew.
Twenty-three bodies were recovered on Sunday after a small plane crashed on takeoff into a densely populated area of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rescue workers said.Goma airport official Richard Mangolopa told AFP no survivors were expected from the disaster.
The Dornier-228 aircraft had been headed for Beni, 350 kilometres north of Goma when it went down in a residential area near the airport in the east of the country. “There were 17 passengers on board and two crew members. It took off around 9-9.10 am ,” Busy Bee airline staff member Heritier Said Mamadou said.One of the company’s maintenance workers at the site quoted by news site actualite.cd blamed a “technical problem”.For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for
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