Plane Crash in Congo Kills 10

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Authorities in Congo say at least 10 people have died after a military cargo plane crash shortly after takeoff from the capital. Government spokesman Lambert Mende confirmed the crash of the Antonov cargo plane at N'djili International Airport on Saturday morning based on reports from airport officials. Local media report that at least 10 people are believed to have been on the plane bound for Bukavu in Congo's east. Media reports say there were no survivors.

 The cause of the crash was not immediately known. The plane reportedly suffered a technical problem after takeoff and lost contact with the control tower. The crash site is about seven miles (12 kilometers) east of Kinshasa. Media reports say no one who wasn't on the plane is thought to have been killed.

Ndege ya Urusi Yaanguka Misri

Aina ya Ndege iliyoanguka leo huko Misri

Ndege ya abiria ya Urusi imeanguka nchini Misri leo. Ndege hiyo ya shirika la Metrojet ilikuwa na abiria 224.  Serikali ya Misri inasema kuwa wameona mabaki ya ndege huko Sinai Peninsula na abiria wote wamepoteza maisha.  Abiria hao walikuwa wakitoka kutalii nchini Misri. Ndege ilitoka Sharm-El Sheikh kwenda St. Petersburg, Urusi.

Mungu alaze roho zao mahala pema mbinguni. Amen.

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

Ndege ya Mozambique Airlime Imeanguka Namibia!

Ndege ya Mozambique Airlines imeanguka Naimbia Leo!  Watu 34 wamekufa!


By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

   JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday.

   The plane crashed in a Namibian national park near the border with Angola and there were no survivors, said Namibian deputy police commissioner Bollen Sankwasa, according to The Namibia Press Agency. An investigation of the cause was underway.

   The plane was carrying 27 passengers, including 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, and one citizen each from France, Brazil and China, said the airline. Six crew members were on board.

   Flight TM470 from Maputo, the Mozambican capital, did not land as scheduled in Luanda, the Angolan capital, on Friday afternoon, and the airline initially said the plane might have landed in Rundu, in northern Namibia. It said it coordinated with aviation authorities in Namibia, Botswana and Angola to locate the missing plane.

   A Namibian police helicopter joined officers on the ground in the search. The area is vast and there are no roads, making it difficult to locate the plane, said police official Willy Bampton, according to the Namibian Press Agency.

   The search was conducted in the Bwabwata National Park in northeastern Namibia. Several thousand people as well as elephants, buffalo and other wildlife live in the park, which covers 6,100 square kilometers (2,360 square miles).

   Airlines from Mozambique are among carriers banned in the European Union because of safety concerns.

   Tony Tyler, director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association, said earlier this week that none of the 25 African members of the association, which include Mozambique Airlines, had an accident in 2012.

   "But the overall safety record for Africa remains a problem that we must fix," Tyler said at a meeting of the African Airlines Association in Kenya. He said African aviation comprises about 3 percent of global airline traffic, and last year it accounted for nearly half of the fatalities on Western-built jets.

   Mozambique Airlines uses Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer aircraft.

   CEO Marlene Mendes Manave says in a statement on the airline's website that the airline grew 8 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2012.

A Mozambique Airlines Plane

Ajali ya Ndege ya Tanzanair Lake Manyara Katika Picha

Photos of the plane crash in Tanzania yesterday! It was the private company Tanzanair chartered by tourists. It crash landed in Lake Manyara.    The photos are from Facebook:  

Kutoka Aviation Safety:

* A chartered Beechcraft B200C Super King Air was forced to carry out a ditching in the waters of Lake Manyara in Tanzania. The airplane had lost engine power while en route between Bukoba and Zanzibar, Tanzania. Final destination of the flight was Dar es Salaam.  All seven occupants were rescued by fishermen.

 

From All Africa.com

Seven people on board a chartered TanzanAir aircraft from Bukoba town to Dar es Salaam, narrowly escaped death when it made an emergency landing in Lake Manyara, Babati, Manyara Region, on Thursday morning.

The Arusha Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Liberatus Sabas, told the 'Daily News' in a telephone interview that all the six passengers and the pilot were in good condition.
He named the passengers as Aneth Kashasha (51), Mutabihirwa Regina (58), Aloys Mwanga (60), Navuli Meeda (80), Ashura Ruta (38) and Protase Ishengoma (45) all residents of Dar es Salaam.
The pilot was identified by single name as Capt Kondo of TanzanAir with registration number 5H TZW. According to RPC Sabas, the charter plane was flying from Bukoba to Dar es Salaam via Zanzibar.
He said the plane developed mechanical problems in one of its engines and the pilot decided to make an emergency landing on the waters of Lake Manyara. The passengers were rescued by fishermen who rushed them to Selian Hospital for treatment.
The Manyara Regional Commissioner, Mr Akili Mpwapwa, said the incident occurred in the Babati section of the water body striding Lake Manyara National Park. Mr Sabas said three among the six passengers sustained minor injuries.
"We thank God all the six passengers and the pilot are in good condition," he said. Sources said Ishengoma, Kashasha and Mwanga had been in Bukoba to attend the funeral of Joseph Mushumbusi's mother, the late Ernestina Mujwahuzi, who was buried at Kanazi Village, in Bukoba Rural District on Wednesday.
Soon after news of the crash reached Bukoba town, friends and relatives of the passengers on board the plane made frantic efforts to know the fate of their beloved ones, fearing the worst.
The Tanzania National Parks through its Public Relations Manager, Mr Paschal Shelutete said efforts to remove the wreckage from the site were going on. This is the third plane crash to occur in Arusha this year, the first one claimed the life of Mr Joseph Macha, the Arusha prominent businessman popularly known as Bob Sambeke, who crashed while trying to land at Arusha Airport, last April.
Two weeks ago, the flying doctor's plane which was traveling from Enduleni Ward of Ngorongoro District to Arusha via Longido also crashed at Merugway Village in Longido District with six patients and two pilots on board.

 

Seven people on board a chartered TanzanAir aircraft from Bukoba town to Dar es Salaam, narrowly escaped death when it made an emergency landing in Lake Manyara, Babati, Manyara Region, on Thursday morning.
The Arusha Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Liberatus Sabas, told the 'Daily News' in a telephone interview that all the six passengers and the pilot were in good condition.
He named the passengers as Aneth Kashasha (51), Mutabihirwa Regina (58), Aloys Mwanga (60), Navuli Meeda (80), Ashura Ruta (38) and Protase Ishengoma (45) all residents of Dar es Salaam.
The pilot was identified by single name as Capt Kondo of TanzanAir with registration number 5H TZW. According to RPC Sabas, the charter plane was flying from Bukoba to Dar es Salaam via Zanzibar.
He said the plane developed mechanical problems in one of its engines and the pilot decided to make an emergency landing on the waters of Lake Manyara. The passengers were rescued by fishermen who rushed them to Selian Hospital for treatment.
The Manyara Regional Commissioner, Mr Akili Mpwapwa, said the incident occurred in the Babati section of the water body striding Lake Manyara National Park. Mr Sabas said three among the six passengers sustained minor injuries.
"We thank God all the six passengers and the pilot are in good condition," he said. Sources said Ishengoma, Kashasha and Mwanga had been in Bukoba to attend the funeral of Joseph Mushumbusi's mother, the late Ernestina Mujwahuzi, who was buried at Kanazi Village, in Bukoba Rural District on Wednesday.
Soon after news of the crash reached Bukoba town, friends and relatives of the passengers on board the plane made frantic efforts to know the fate of their beloved ones, fearing the worst.
The Tanzania National Parks through its Public Relations Manager, Mr Paschal Shelutete said efforts to remove the wreckage from the site were going on. This is the third plane crash to occur in Arusha this year, the first one claimed the life of Mr Joseph Macha, the Arusha prominent businessman popularly known as Bob Sambeke, who crashed while trying to land at Arusha Airport, last April.
Two weeks ago, the flying doctor's plane which was traveling from Enduleni Ward of Ngorongoro District to Arusha via Longido also crashed at Merugway Village in Longido District with six patients and two pilots on board.

Ndege Zaanguka Nigeria na Ghana Leo! Watu zaidi ya 150 Wafa!

Wakazi wa Iju wakiangalia mabaki ya nduge iliyoanguka Nigeria leo

 Habari ya Ndege iliyoanguka Nigeria:

Kutoka Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/lagos-plane-crash-nigeria-171035145.html

A passenger plane thought to be carrying at least 140 people crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, emergencies officials there said.

The Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed in a densely-populated area of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, causing several house fires, reports said. Police told Agence France-Press that the plane crashed into a two-story building near the airport.

The exact number of passengers on the flight is unclear. The Lagos state government said 153 people were on board, but an official told the Associated Press that the plane was likely carrying between 140 and 150 people, as not all flights in Nigeria issue paper tickets and "don't record all passengers via computer."

There has not been an official report of casualties, but Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, told London's Telegraph, "I don't believe there are any survivors."

"I can confirm that one of our planes crashed today on the outskirts of Lagos," a spokesman for Dana Air told AFP.

According to Al Jazeera, witnesses on the ground "believe it may have hit a power line" before it crashed into the building and burst into flames.

"Thick smoke rose from the area near the Lagos airport and flames could be seen coming from the building," the AFP reported. "Residents said the plane had been coming in low, making a loud noise, when it slammed into the residential area."

According to the Dana Air website, it operates several daily Lagos-Abuja and Lagos-Abuja flights using Boeing MD83 planes.

Sunday's crash comes just a day after a Boeing 727 cargo plane flying from Lagos crashed in Accra, the capital of Ghana, hitting a bus and killing at least 10.

Lagos' international airport is a major hub for West Africa, accommodating more than 2.3 million passengers in 2009, according to the AP.

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Mabaki ya Ndege iliyoanguka Ghana

Habari ya Ndege Iliyoanguka Ghana leo.

 

ACCRA, Ghana—Officials opened an investigation into the Boeing 727 cargo plane that crashed at Ghana's international airport, killing at least 10 people after it slammed through a fence and onto a nearby street, the country's transit company said Sunday.

Doreen Owusu Fianko, chief executive of Ghana Airport Co., said the group has discounted airport-equipment failure as one of the causes of the crash. She said they were open to outside help on the investigation.

"We would not hesitate to seek external assistance to unravel the cause and to take lessons from that," she said.

Saturday's crash occurred in Accra near Kotoka International Airport, which sits near newly built high-rise buildings and hotels. Witnesses said the plane smashed through the fence that runs around the airport before hitting a bus.

Randy Banahene, a taxi driver who saw the crash, said an explosion was heard when the plane hit a wall. He said the plane landed on its belly across a road, its nose nicked and tail bent with punctures on its side, just yards from a residential neighborhood.

Families gathered at the hospital mortuary late Saturday night to identify bodies. Among them were family members of 27-year-old Castro Abuchor, who they said was riding a motorcycle when he was hit by the plane and killed.

The others were killed while riding in the minibus that was hit by the plane, officials said.
Mortuary manager Woi Boamah Mensah at the 37 Military Hospital said that eight of the 10 dead have been identified. Hospital staff had earlier said that nine of the dead were men, and one was a woman.

Ghana President John Atta Mills on Sunday visited the four plane crew members who are receiving treatment at the airport clinic after surviving the crash.
"We are grateful to all of them," Mr. Mills said at the clinic.

Dr. Nana Ako-Bruce, the medical director of the clinic, said the four crew members were Nigerian.
Billy Anaglate, spokesman for the Ghana Fire Service, said that all 10 people were killed on impact. He identified the plane as an Allied (Air) Cargo plane.

Ms. Fianko said the plane was coming from Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, when it crashed after a failed landing attempt. She said that operations at the airport had returned to normal after the crash Saturday.

Ghana, a nation of more than 25 million in West Africa, hasn't had a major airplane crash in recent years. The last air emergency the country had was in June 2006, when a TAAG Linhas Aereas De Angola flight to Sao Tome hit birds during takeoff. The plane landed safely and none of the 28 people onboard were injured.

Kwa habari zaidi BOFYA HAPA:

Ndege ya Air India Imeanguka India!

Ndege ya Air India aina ya 737 imeanguka leo huko India. Habari zinasema kuwa watu 158 wamekufa na watu 8 wamepona. Ndege hiyo ilitoka Dubai na ilikuwa ina jaribu kutua mjini Mangalore.

Mungu alaze roho za waliokufa mahala pema peponi. Amen. Kupona kwa hao watu 8 ni miujiza. Mungu lazima ana mpango nao dunia.

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NEW DELHI (AP) - As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday as it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India.

Television images showed dense black smoke billowing from the aircraft surrounded by flames just outside the Mangalore city airport in a hilly area with thick grass and trees.

Firefighters sprayed water on the plane as rescue workers struggled to find survivors. One firefighter ran up a hill with an injured child in his arms.

Officials in the state of Karnataka said of the 169 people believed on board, only six or seven might have survived.

"This is a major calamity," Karnataka Home Minister V.S. Acharya told CNN-IBN TV.

The aircraft overshot the runway, hit a fence and went beyond the boundary wall of the airport, according to the Press Trust of India.

The crash could be the deadliest in India since the November 1996 midair collision between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi that killed 349 people.

The airport's location, on a plateau surrounded by hills, made it difficult for the firefighters to reach the scene Saturday, officials said.

Pre-monsoon rains over the past two days caused low visibility in the area, officials said.

Mangalore airport is about 19 miles (30 kilometers) away from Mangalore city.

Ndege ya Air France imeanguka!

Kuna habari kuwa ndege ya AIR FRANCE imeanguka katika bahari ya Atlantiki kati ya Brazil na bara ya Afrika Magharibi!

Someni habari zaidi hapa: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brazil_plane

Huenda ndege kama tau nne zitaanguka. Ndo kawaida, ikianguka moja lazima zianguke kama tatu nne katika siku za karibu.

Nawombea uzima na usalama wanaosafiri kwa ndege katika kipindi hiki. Amen.

Familia ya Wamisionari waponea chupuchupu - Ajali ya Ndege

Mosier Family

Kuna habari kuwa familia ya wamisionari kutoka Minnesota wamenusurika kifo katika ajali ya ndege iliyotokea jana huko Congo.

Familia hiyo ni wamisionari wa Seventh Day Adventist (waSabato) huko Iringa. Walikuwa Congo kumtembelea mtoto wao ambaye ni misionari Congo. Wanaitwa Mosier family.

Habari zinasema kuwa binti wao mwenye miaka 14 ambaye anaongea kiswahili vizuri alisaidia kupata watu wa kuokoa familia yake.

Familia hiyo inasema kuwa wanamshukuru Mungu kuwa wote walitoka na hai kwenye hiyo ajali. Wanasema kuwa ni ishara kuwa Mungu ana kazi maalum ambayo anataka wafanye.

Kwa sasa wanasema watu 36 waliokuwa ndani ya ndege walikufa, na watu zaidi ya 100 waliumia.
Ndege ilianguka kwenye soko nje ya uwanja wa ndege ya Goma huko Congo.

Kusoma habari kamili bofya:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/16/congo.crash.survivors/index.html

http://www.kttc.com/News/index.php?ID=24090

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/199302,at-least-33-dead-at-least-120-injured-in-congo.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_re_af/congo_plane_crash

UPDATE - Ajali ya Ndege Congo

LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images



Inasemekana watu kumi waliokuwa kwenye ndege walitolewa kwenye mabaki ya hiyo ndege wakiwa hai. Pia wanasema hawajui watu wangapi wamekufa waliokuwa kwenye eneo ilipoanguka. Wanasema imeanguka kwenye soko.


BOFYA HAPA KUONA SLIDESHOW
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CNN) -- A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 75 passengers and crew members on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

Five of the crew and 10 passengers survived the crash, according to Antoine Ghonda, a Congolese lawmaker and former foreign minister.

A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said two Americans were on board the plane, and it was unclear if they survived.

One engine failed as the plane was taking off, Ghonda said. He earlier had indicated the cabin may have been overloaded. He said weather was not a factor.

It's unclear exactly how many passengers were on the flight, he said. Watch as Ghonda describes what went wrong »

There also are concerns that others on the ground may have perished when the plane slammed into a marketplace in Goma's Birere neighborhood.

"This was a market area where women were selling their goods," said Anna Ridout, who works at the Goma office of World Vision, a Christian relief organization.

"People were talking of people just being plowed over by the plane moving across the ground and through the shops and through wooden houses," she said.

U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said the pilot and the co-pilot were among the survivors based on conversations with rescuers on the scene.

The Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 was taking off from Goma in the eastern mountains for the central city of Kisangani when it plummeted into a neighborhood near the runway, Ghonda said.


"It actually failed to take off from the runway and went straight through the commercial center here in Goma," Ridout said.

The plane went down shortly after 3 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) and was still on fire an hour later, Saiki said.

The United Nations and Red Cross are helping with the rescue effort, which is hampered by the "basic, if nonexistent" equipment in the impoverished country, Saiki said.

Speaking two hours after the crash, Ridout said, "What I can see is a whole parade of shops on fire and smoke coming out of the roofs."

She said she had spoken with a man who told her he had entered the plane's wreckage and rescued six people, including a baby.

The European Commission added Hewa Bora to its blacklist of carriers last week. The commission had banned all other Congolese carriers, but Hewa Bora operated a weekly flight to Belgium "under a special arrangement," according to a commission news release. That flight was halted last week because of safety violations, Ghonda said.

Hewa Bora Airways is a private Congolese airline based in the capital, Kinshasa.

Congolese authorities had not suspended the airline. "I'm quite sure they're going" to after this week's crash, Ghonda added.


The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, has a dismal aviation record. There have been 10 plane crashes there since February 2007, resulting in 76 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

Saiki said air travel is one of the few ways to get around.

"This is the third-largest country in Africa, as big as Western Europe, and yet you don't even have 2,000 miles of roads," Saiki said. "So basically most of the transportation in such a big country is done by air."


Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1yNw-WIN05Xqww_QCPUSlgCtCPg


http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/15/plane_crash_in_dr_congo_kills_at_least_83/1811/


http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=nw20080415182329889C318625

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=43334&cat=11

Ndege imeanguka Congo (Hewa Bora Airways)

Habari kutoka CNN zinasema kuwa ndege imeaguka Congo na watu 78 wamekufa.

Nitakuwa na habari zaidi baadaye!

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CNN) -- A plane crashed Tuesday in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 78 people on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

The Hewa Bora Airways flight was heading from the eastern city of Goma to the capital, Kinshasa, when it crashed in North Kivu province near the Rwandan border, spokesman Antoine Ghonda said.

Hewa Bora Airways is based in Kinshasa.

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EU bans Hewa Bora Airways

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The EU has banned Hewa Bora Airways from its skies citing safety standards. The airlines was previously allowed to operate a single aircraft under a special arrangement, but this operating permission has been withdrawn.

Kwa habari zaidi ya Ban soma:

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/04/11/afx4879230.html

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UPDATE 12:00PM EASTERN

CNN) -- A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 83 passengers and crew on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

The Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 was heading from the city of Goma in the eastern mountains to the central city of Kisangani when it plummeted into a neighborhood near the runway, spokesman Antoine Ghonda said.

The plane went down shortly after 3 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) and was still on fire an hour later, U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said in Goma.

The United Nations and Red Cross are helping with the rescue effort, which is hampered by the "basic, if nonexistent" equipment in the impoverished country, Saiki said.

Hewa Bora Airways is a private Congolese airline that aviation authorities in Belgium recently suspended for safety violations, said foreign ministry spokesman Antoine Ghonda. The airline is based in the capital, Kinshasa.

Before its suspension, Hewa Bora had operated a weekly flight to Belgium, Ghonda said.
Congolese authorities had not suspended the airline. "I'm quite sure they're going" to after this week's crash, Ghonda added.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, has a dismal aviation record. There have been 10 plane crashes there since February 2007, resulting in 76 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

Ghonda said the cause of Tuesday's crash is under investigation but initial indications point to an overloaded cabin. He said weather was not a factor.

Saiki said air travel is one of the few ways to get around the Congo.

"This is the third-largest country in Africa, as big as Western Europe, and yet you don't even have 2,000 miles of roads," Saiki said. "So basically most of the transportation in such a big country is done by air."