He said the aircraft crashed in Goma but it did not hit any people on the ground. The Compagnie Africaine d’Aviation plane was carrying cargo and passengers, UN Mission in DR Congo spokesman Alexandre Essome told reporters yesterday by phone. Two calls made to a number listed on CAA’s website weren’t answered. “It crashed in the middle of the city, but luckily it crashed in an empty lot,” Paluku said by phone. Three survivors were pulled from the wreckage, he said.
“We’re still trying to confirm the number of passengers who left from Lodja,” where the flight originated. Paluku said the plane was two minutes from the airport and flying in a rainstorm. Congolese airlines, including CAA, are banned from flying within Europe.
In April 2008 a Hewa Bora Airways plane crash on takeoff in Goma, killing 37 people on the ground and three on the plane. In July 2011, at least 83 people were killed when a Hewa Bora plane crashed in Kisangani. CAA flies to 34 destinations in Congo, according to its website.
Meanwhile, nine children were burnt to death in a fire that broke out while they were sleeping in a crowded room at a Koranic school in the Senegalese capital Dakar, witnesses said yesterday.
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