One person among the 33 passengers and crew members survived after a plan of the United Nations crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Monday.
The accident, in Kinshasa, is one of the worst involving an aircraft of the United Nations. Most of the passengers was officials of the United Nations and the soldiers of peace, that five of the NGO workers were also on board.
Alain Le Roy, the head of the United Nations peace operations, said no there was no immediate information on the only survivor, who is in hospital in the Congolese capital.
The plan, which was travelling from the eastern city of Goma, failed not N'djili airport runway in Kinshasa, perhaps because of strong winds, said Le Roy. The jet of Bombardier CRJ-100 separates from the impact and caught fire. Television images showed that the aircraft was almost entirely destroyed. An official investigation into the crash is underway.
While the nationality of the victims have not been confirmed, the South African Government said that three of its citizens died in the accident. The International Committee for relief, an American aid agency, said his senior adviser reproductive health in the Congo, Dr Boubacar Toure, a Guinean, was also among the dead.
The aircraft was operated and composed by Airzena Georgian Airways. The company, which has been flying for the United Nations in the Congo for three years, said its four crew members, all Georgians, had died and expressed the shock of the accident.
The United Nations Security Council has sent his "sincere condolences" to the families of the victims.
With 19 000 soldiers, the peace mission of the United Nations in the Congo is the largest in the world and is dependent on air transport as the road network is insufficient.
Congo has a safety record worst aviation in the world, mainly because the fleet of old and often poorly maintained aircraft serving the civilian population.
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